{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2014/section-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2014/section-52.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2014/14",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2014",
  "path": "section/52",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "Power to obtain information",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers may, for the purpose of monitoring compliance with the provisions of this Part, serve a notice on a person who appears to be a letting agent requiring the person to provide them with information specified in the notice.\n(2) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make further provision about the requiring of information under subsection (1) and, in particular, may make provision about—\n(a) the form of the notice and manner of service,\n(b) the time within which information must be provided.\n(3) Any requirement for a person to provide information in accordance with a notice under subsection (1) does not have effect to the extent that the person would be entitled to refuse to provide the information in, or for the purposes of, proceedings in a court in Scotland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 52(3) substituted (1.4.2026 for specified purposes) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 13), ss. 43(2), 86(2); S.S.I. 2026/115, reg. 2(1)(5), sch. Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 52(1)(3) in force at 31.1.2018 by S.S.I. 2016/412, art. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 52(2) in force at 2.2.2016 by S.S.I. 2015/430, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2014/14/section/52",
    "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."
}