{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2025/section-81",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2025/section-81.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2025/13",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2025",
  "path": "section/81",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "81",
  "heading": "Rural impact assessment",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers must, no later than 12 months after Royal Assent, conduct an impact assessment of the provisions of this Act on rural and island communities.\n(2) On completing the impact assessment, the Scottish Ministers must—\n(a) lay a report on the impact assessment before the Scottish Parliament,\n(b) publish the report in such manner as they consider appropriate.\n(3) The report under subsection (2) must include a statement of the action, if any, the Scottish Ministers intend to take as a result of conducting the impact assessment.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 81 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 86(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 81 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/81",
    "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."
}