{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2006/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2006/schedule-2/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2006/1",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2006",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers may pay to any person such allowances and expenses as they may determine in respect of—\n(a) the person's attendance at a hearing of the First-tier Tribunal ,\n(b) the disclosure of anything required or requested by the First-tier Tribunal (including any report about the state of repair of a house which the First-tier Tribunal requests the person to prepare),\n(c) anything else which the person was required or requested to do for the purposes of or in connection with inquiries made by the First-tier Tribunal .\n(2) No such payments may be made to—\n(a) the landlord,\n(b) the tenant, or\n(ba) the third party applicant,\n(c) a representative of the landlord , tenant or third party applicant ,\nother than payments of reasonable travelling expenses in respect of attendance at a hearing of the First-tier Tribunal .",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in sch. 2 para. 5(1)(a) substituted (1.12.2016) by The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Transfer of Functions of the Private Rented Housing Committees) Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/337), reg. 1(2), sch. 2 para. 6(20)(f)(i)(aa) (with sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in sch. 2 para. 5(1)(b) substituted (1.12.2016) by The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Transfer of Functions of the Private Rented Housing Committees) Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/337), reg. 1(2) sch. 2 para. 6(20)(f)(i)(bb) (with sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in sch. 2 para. 5(1)(c) substituted (1.12.2016) by The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Transfer of Functions of the Private Rented Housing Committees) Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/337), reg. 1(2), sch. 2 para. 6(20)(f)(i)(cc) (with sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 5(2)(ba) inserted (1.12.2015) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 14), ss. 26(4)(a), 104(3); S.S.I. 2015/272, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in sch. 2 para. 5(2)(c) substituted (1.12.2015) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 14), ss. 26(4)(b), 104(3); S.S.I. 2015/272, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in sch. 2 para. 5(2) substituted (1.12.2016) by The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Transfer of Functions of the Private Rented Housing Committees) Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/337), reg. 1(2), sch. 2 para. 6(20)(f)(ii) (with sch. 1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2006/1/schedule/2/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:19.148871+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."
}