{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2025/section-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2025/section-40.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2025/13",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2025",
  "path": "section/40",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Revocation of registration: where agent no longer exists",
  "text": "(1) The Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 is modified as follows.\n(2) In section 39 (revocation of registration)—\n(a) in subsection (1)—\n(i) the word “or” immediately following paragraph (b) is repealed,\n(ii) after paragraph (c) insert\n“, or\n(d) the agent no longer exists.”,\n(b) in subsection (2), in the opening words—\n(i) for “this section” substitute “subsection (1)(a), (b) or (c)”,\n(ii) after “must” insert “(if possible)”,\n(c) after subsection (2) insert—\n“(2A) The Scottish Ministers must give further notice under subsection (2) if they are considering removing the agent from the register for reasons that differ from or supplement those previously notified.”,\n(d) in subsection (4), in the opening words—\n(i) after “must” insert “(if possible)”,\n(ii) after “decision” insert “under subsection (1)(a), (b) or (c)”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 40 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 86(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 40 in force at 1.4.2026 by S.S.I. 2026/115, reg. 2(1)(5), sch. Pt. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/13/section/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:11:53.728990+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."
}