{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2006/section-20A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2006/section-20A.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2006/1",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2006",
  "path": "section/20A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "20A",
  "heading": "Power to modify repairing standard etc.",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations vary or extend the repairing standard and a landlord's duty to ensure a house meets that standard.\n(2) Regulations under subsection (1) may, in particular, make provision about—\n(a) the tenancies to which this Chapter applies,\n(b) determining whether a house meets the repairing standard,\n(c) carrying out inspections in relation to the repairing standard.\n(3) Regulations under subsection (1) may modify sections 12 to 14 and any other provision of this Chapter.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 20A inserted (20.11.2014) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 14), ss. 24(1), 104(3); S.S.I. 2014/264, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2006/1/section/20A",
    "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."
}