{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2006/schedule-4/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2006/schedule-4/paragraph-9.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2006/1",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2006",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The local authority must decide whether to grant or refuse an application for an HMO licence within 12 months of it receiving the application.\n(2) The period mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) may be extended by the sheriff, on summary application by the local authority, by such period as the sheriff thinks fit.\n(3) The sheriff may not extend a period unless the local authority applies for the extension before the period expires.\n(4) The applicant is entitled to be a party to any proceedings on such a summary application.\n(5) The sheriff's decision on such an application is final.\n(6) If the local authority does not determine an application for an HMO licence within the period mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) (or that period as extended), the authority is to be treated as having decided to grant the HMO licence unconditionally.\n(7) Sub-paragraph (6) does not affect the local authority's power to vary or revoke an HMO licence granted in pursuance of that sub-paragraph.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 9(2) power to disapply conferred (20.11.2014) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 14), ss. 20(2)(a)(iii), 104(3); S.S.I. 2014/264, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 9 in force at 31.8.2011 by S.S.I. 2010/159, art. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2006/1/schedule/4/paragraph/9",
    "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."
}