{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2006/section-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2006/section-22.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2006/1",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2006",
  "path": "section/22",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Application in respect of the repairing standard",
  "text": "(1) A tenant may apply to the First-tier Tribunal for determination of whether the landlord has failed to comply with the duty imposed by section 14(1)(b).\n(1A) A person mentioned in subsection (1B) may apply to the First-tier Tribunal for determination of whether a landlord has failed to comply with the duty imposed by section 14(1)(b) (a person who makes such an application being referred to as a “third party applicant”).\n(1B) The persons are—\n(a) a local authority,\n(b) a person specified by order made by the Scottish Ministers.\n(2) An application under subsection (1) or (1A) must set out the tenant's, or as the case may be, the third party applicant's reasons for considering that the landlord has failed to comply with that duty.\n(3) No application under this section may be made unless the person making the application has notified the landlord that work requires to be carried out for the purpose of complying with that duty.\n(4) No application under this section may be made where the landlord is—\n(a) a local authority landlord (within the meaning of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 (asp 10)),\n(b) a registered social landlord (being a body registered in the register maintained under section 20(1) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 17)),\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(d) Scottish Water.\n(4A) The tenant of the house concerned is entitled to be a party in the determination of any application made under subsection (1A).\n(5) Schedule 2 makes further provision about the procedure for making and determining an application under this section.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 22(1) substituted (1.12.2016) by The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Transfer of Functions of the Private Rented Housing Panel) Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/338), reg. 1(2), sch. 2 para. 2(2)(a) (with sch. 1 para. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 22(1A)(1B) inserted (1.12.2015 for specified purposes, 1.4.2016 for specified purposes, 1.6.2016 in so far as not already in force) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 14), ss. 25(1)(a), 104(3); S.S.I. 2015/349, art. 3, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 22(1A) substituted (1.12.2016) by The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Transfer of Functions of the Private Rented Housing Panel) Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/338), reg. 1(2), sch. 2 para. 2(2)(b) (with sch. 1 para. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 22(2) substituted (1.12.2015) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 14), ss. 25(1)(b), 104(3); S.S.I. 2015/349, art. 3, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 22(3) substituted (1.12.2015) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 14), ss. 25(1)(c), 104(3); S.S.I. 2015/349, art. 3, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 22(4) substituted (1.12.2015) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 14), ss. 25(1)(d), 104(3); S.S.I. 2015/349, art. 3, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 22(4)(b) substituted (1.4.2012) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 17), s. 166(2), Sch. 2 para. 14; S.S.I. 2012/39, art. 2, Sch. 1 (with Sch. 2) (as amended (1.4.2012) by S.S.I. 2012/91, art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "S. 22(4)(c) repealed (20.11.2014) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 14), s. 104(3), Sch. 2 para. 17(a); S.S.I. 2014/264, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "S. 22(4A) inserted (1.12.2015) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 14), ss. 25(1)(e), 104(3); S.S.I. 2015/349, art. 3, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "S. 22(6) repealed (20.11.2014) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 14), s. 104(3), Sch. 2 para. 17(b); S.S.I. 2014/264, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "S. 22 heading substituted (1.12.2015) by virtue of Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 14), ss. 25(2), 104(3); S.S.I. 2015/349, art. 3, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 22 wholly in force at 3.9.2007; s. 22 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 195(3); s. 22(5) in force for certain purposes at 4.12.2006 by S.S.I. 2006/569, art. 2; s. 22 in force at 3.9.2007 by S.S.I. 2007/270, {art. 3 Table}"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word inserted",
      "affecting": "asp/2011/14",
      "affecting_title": "Private Rented Housing (Scotland) Act 2011"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2006/1/section/22",
    "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."
}