{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-casualties-scotland-act-2001/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-casualties-scotland-act-2001/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2001/5",
  "legislation_title": "Leasehold Casualties (Scotland) Act 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-casualties-scotland-act-2001",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Extinction of leasehold casualties",
  "text": "(1) In a relevant lease (that is to say, in a lease of land granted before 1st September 1974 for a period of not less than one hundred and seventy-five years), any provision which stipulates for payment of a casualty is void; and, accordingly, any such payment which would, but for this subsection, have fallen due on or after the relevant day shall not be exigible.\n(2) In subsection (1) above, any reference to a payment falling due shall be construed, in a case where the provision in the relevant lease stipulates for payment to be deferred until the death of the last person to pay a casualty, as a reference to its falling due on the date of death of that person.\n(3) This section shall be deemed to have come into force on the relevant day.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2001/5/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:17.705217+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."
}