{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2025/section-74",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2025/section-74.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2025/13",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2025",
  "path": "section/74",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "74",
  "heading": "Disclosure of information to new homes ombudsman",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Public Services Ombudsman Act 2002 is modified as follows.\n(2) In schedule 5 (which specifies persons or bodies to whom the Ombudsman in certain circumstances may disclose information in relation to certain matters), after the entry relating to Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland insert—\n“\nthe new homes ombudsman\nA matter in respect of which the new homes ombudsman could exercise any function conferred by the new homes ombudsman scheme (see section 136 of the Building Safety Act 2022)\n”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 74 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 86(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "ssi/2026/286",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/13/section/74",
    "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."
}