{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2014/section-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2014/section-24.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2014/14",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2014",
  "path": "section/24",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Power to modify repairing standard etc.",
  "text": "(1) After section 20 of the 2006 Act insert—\n“Power to modify repairing standard etc.\n20A (1) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations vary or extend the repairing standard and a landlord's duty to ensure a house meets that standard.\n(2) Regulations under subsection (1) may, in particular, make provision about—\n(a) the tenancies to which this Chapter applies,\n(b) determining whether a house meets the repairing standard,\n(c) carrying out inspections in relation to the repairing standard.\n(3) Regulations under subsection (1) may modify sections 12 to 14 and any other provision of this Chapter.”.\n(2) In section 191(5) of the 2006 Act, after “section” insert “ 20A, ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 24 in force at 20.11.2014 by S.S.I. 2014/264, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2014/14/section/24",
    "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."
}