{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2006/section-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2006/section-39.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2006/1",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2006",
  "path": "section/39",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Unlawful occupation etc.",
  "text": "(1) A person commits an offence if the person, knowing that a requirement under section 37(1) has effect in relation to any land or premises—\n(a) occupies it or them, or\n(b) permits such occupation.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) is liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to both.\n(3) It is not an offence under subsection (1)—\n(a) for a person to continue to occupy any land or premises which that person occupied on the day on which the requirement under section 37(1) is made, or\n(b) to permit such a person to continue occupation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2006/1/section/39",
    "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."
}