{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2014/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2014/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2014/14",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2014",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Grant of short Scottish secure tenancy: homeowners",
  "text": "In schedule 6 to the 2001 Act (grounds for granting short Scottish secure tenancy), after paragraph 7 insert—\n“Temporary letting where other property owned\n7A (1) The house is to be let expressly on a temporary basis to a person pending the making of arrangements in relation to a property mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) which will allow the person's housing needs to be met.\n(2) The property is heritable property owned by the person or a person who it is proposed will reside with that person.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 8 in force at 1.5.2019 by S.S.I. 2018/153, art. 2, sch. (with art. 9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2014/14/section/8",
    "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."
}