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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2014/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2014/section-17.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2014/14",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2014",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Repairing standard",
  "text": "(1) The 2006 Act is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 18—\n(a) in subsection (1), for “sheriff” substitute “ First-tier Tribunal ”,\n(b) in subsection (2)(b), for “sheriff” substitute “ Tribunal ”.\n(3) The title of section 18 becomes “ Contracting out with consent of First-tier Tribunal ”.\n(4) In section 57—\n(a) in subsection (2), for “sheriff” substitute “ relevant authority ”,\n(b) after subsection (2) insert—\n“(2A) In subsection (2), the relevant authority is—\n(a) where the requirement or thing which the person is authorised or entitled to do relates to the repairing standard, the First-tier Tribunal,\n(b) in any other case, the sheriff.”.\n(5) Part 2 of schedule 1 makes minor and consequential amendments.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 17 in force at 1.12.2017 by S.S.I. 2017/330, art. 3, sch."
    }
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2014/14/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:14:04.520985+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."
}