{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2001/section-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2001/section-31.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2001/10",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2001",
  "path": "section/31",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Effect of work on rent",
  "text": "In assessing the rent to be payable under a Scottish secure tenancy by—\n(a) a tenant who has carried out work on the house,\n(b) a person who has succeeded that tenant in the tenancy, or\n(c) the spouse or civil partner of a person mentioned in paragraph (b) or a person living with that person as husband and wife or in a relationship which has the characteristics of the relationship between civil partners ,\nno account is to be taken at any time of any improvement in the value or amenities of the house resulting from the work.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 31(c) inserted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(10)(c), Sch. 28 para. 63(a); S.S.I. 2005/604, arts. 2(c), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 31(c) substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(10)(c), Sch. 28 para. 63(b); S.S.I. 2005/604, arts. 2(c), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 31 wholly in force at 30.9.2002, see s. 113(1)(2) and S.S.I. 2002/321, art. 2 (subject to transitional provisions and savings in arts. 3-5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2001/10/section/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:14.316341+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}