{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2006/section-65",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2006/section-65.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2006/1",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2006",
  "path": "section/65",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "65",
  "heading": "Part 1 appeals: determination",
  "text": "(1) The sheriff, in determining an appeal under 64(1), may—\n(a) confirm the decision (and any work notice, demolition notice, demand for recovery of expenses or maintenance order served, or maintenance plan approved, devised or varied, in consequence of it),\n(b) quash the decision (and any such notice, demand, order or plan), or\n(c) make such other order as the sheriff thinks just.\n(2) The Upper Tribunal may determine an appeal under section 64(4) , (4A) or (5) by—\n(a) confirming the decision (and any order or variation made, or certificate granted, in consequence of it),\n(b) remitting the decision (together with the Upper Tribunal’s reasons for doing so) to the Chamber President or, as the case may be, the First-tier Tribunal for reconsideration, or\n(c) quashing the decision (and any order or variation made, or certificate granted, in consequence of it).\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) The sheriff's determination or Upper Tribunal’s decision on an appeal under section 64 is final (subject to subsection (6)).\n(6) The sheriff's determination on an appeal under paragraph (a), (b), (c)(i), (d)(i) or (g) of section 64(1) may be appealed to the sheriff principal within 21 days of the sheriff's determination; and the sheriff principal's decision on any such appeal is final.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 65(2) 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(15)(a)(i) (with sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 65(2) inserted (1.12.2015) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 14), ss. 27(2), 104(3); S.S.I. 2015/272, art. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 65(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(15)(a)(ii)(aa)(bb) (with sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 65(2)(b) 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(15) (with sch. 1 para. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 65(3) repealed (1.12.2017) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 14), s. 104(3), sch. 1 para. 54; S.S.I. 2017/330, art. 3, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 65(4) repealed (1.12.2017) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 14), s. 104(3), sch. 1 para. 54; S.S.I. 2017/330, art. 3, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 65(5) inserted (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(15)(b) (with sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 65 partly in force; s. 65 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 195(3); s. 65(3)(4) in force at 4.12.2006, s. 65(5) in force for certain purposes at 4.12.2006 by S.S.I. 2006/395, art. 2; s. 65(1)(2)(5) in force at 3.9.2007 by S.S.I. 2007/270, {art. 3 Table}"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 65(6) in force at 1.4.2009 by S.S.I. 2009/122, art. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2006/1/section/65",
    "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."
}