{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2010/section-138",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2010/section-138.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2010/17",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2010",
  "path": "section/138",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "138",
  "heading": "Residential restriction on a long lease",
  "text": "In section 8 of the Land Tenure Reform (Scotland) Act 1974 (c.38), after subsection (3) insert—\n“(3A) The condition contained in subsection (1) above does not apply to a long lease executed after the commencement of section 138 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 17) where at the time the lease is executed the lessee is—\n(a) a social landlord (within the meaning of section 165 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2010);\n(b) a body connected to a social landlord (within the meaning of section 164 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2010); or\n(c) a rural housing body (within the meaning of section 122(1) of the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 138 in force at 1.3.2011 by S.S.I. 2011/96, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2010/17/section/138",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:17.618295+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."
}