{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2006/section-60",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2006/section-60.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2006/1",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2006",
  "path": "section/60",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "60",
  "heading": "Certification",
  "text": "(1) A person who is required to carry out work by—\n(a) a work notice, or\n(b) a repairing standard enforcement order,\nmay apply for certification that the work has been completed.\n(2) An application under subsection (1) is to be made—\n(a) where it is made in consequence of a work notice, to the local authority, or\n(b) where it is made in consequence of a repairing standard enforcement order, to the First-tier Tribunal.\n(3) Where the work was carried out by the local authority under section 35 or 36, an application under this section is not competent unless the applicant has paid any expenses demanded by the local authority under section 59 in relation to that work.\n(4) The local authority or, as the case may be, the First-tier Tribunal must grant the certificate applied for if satisfied that the work required by the notice or order has been completed.\n(5) The First-tier Tribunal may, of its own accord—\n(a) inspect any house in respect of which it has made a repairing standard enforcement order, and\n(b) if it is satisfied that the work required by the order has been completed, certify that the work has been completed,\nbut the First-tier Tribunal may not exercise its power under this subsection unless the period within which the order requires the work to be carried out has ended.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 60(2)(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(11)(a) (with sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 60(4) 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(11)(b) (with sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 60(5) 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(11)(c)(i) (with sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 60(5)(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(11)(c)(ii) (with sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in s. 60(5)(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(11)(c)(iii) (with sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 60(5) 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(11)(c)(iv) (with sch. 1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2006/1/section/60",
    "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."
}