{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-casualties-scotland-act-2001/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-casualties-scotland-act-2001/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2001/5",
  "legislation_title": "Leasehold Casualties (Scotland) Act 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-casualties-scotland-act-2001",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Irritancy provisions in certain leases to be void",
  "text": "(1) This section applies to any relevant lease—\n(a) granted before 10th August 1914; and\n(b) stipulating for payment of a ground rent, or tack duty, of not more than £150 in respect of each year.\n(2) In so far as any provision in a relevant lease to which this section applies—\n(a) purports to terminate the lease, or to entitle the landlord to terminate it, in the event of a failure of the tenant to comply with any provision in the lease; or\n(b) deems such a failure to be a material breach of contract, that provision is void.\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/5",
    "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."
}