{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2014/section-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2014/section-47.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2014/14",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2014",
  "path": "section/47",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Prohibition on contracting out",
  "text": "(1) The terms of any agreement of a kind mentioned in subsection (2) are of no effect in so far as they purport to—\n(a) exclude or limit any duty a letting agent has under the Letting Agent Code of Practice, or\n(b) impose any penalty, disability or obligation in the event of a person enforcing compliance by the letting agent with such a duty.\n(2) The agreements are—\n(a) an agreement between a landlord and a letting agent,\n(b) an agreement between a tenant and a letting agent,\n(c) an agreement (including a lease) between a landlord and a tenant.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 47 in force at 31.1.2018 by S.S.I. 2016/412, art. 2, sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2014/14/section/47",
    "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."
}