{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2010/section-66",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2010/section-66.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2010/17",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2010",
  "path": "section/66",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "66",
  "heading": "Restrictions on dealings during or following inquiries",
  "text": "(1) This section applies if the Regulator, when making or having made inquiries, considers—\n(a) that there has been misconduct or mismanagement in a registered social landlord's financial or other affairs,\n(b) that the interests of a registered social landlord's tenants need protection,\n(c) that a registered social landlord's assets need protection, or\n(d) that a registered social landlord's financial viability is in jeopardy.\n(2) The Regulator may—\n(a) direct the registered social landlord not to—\n(i) undertake particular transactions, or\n(ii) make payments of a particular nature or amount,\nwithout the Regulator's consent, or\n(b) direct a bank or other person not to dispose of any money, securities or other assets it holds for the registered social landlord without the Regulator's consent.\n(3) It is an offence for a person to fail to comply with a direction.\n(4) A person guilty of such an offence is liable on summary conviction to—\n(a) imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months,\n(b) a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale, or\n(c) both.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 66 in force at 1.4.2012 by S.S.I. 2012/39, art. 2, Sch. 1 (with Sch. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2010/17/section/66",
    "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."
}