{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-casualties-scotland-act-2001/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-casualties-scotland-act-2001/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2001/5",
  "legislation_title": "Leasehold Casualties (Scotland) Act 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-casualties-scotland-act-2001",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Liability for casualty due by former tenant not to transmit on assignation, or other transfer, of lease",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) before, on or after the relevant day a relevant lease is assigned, or otherwise transferred, to a new tenant; and\n(b) any casualty payable under the lease by a former tenant is, on such assignation or other transfer, due but unpaid,\nthe new tenant shall not be liable to pay it.\n(2) Nothing in subsection (1) above shall—\n(a) entitle a new tenant to recover any amount which he has paid to the landlord;\n(b) affect any agreement concluded before the relevant day between a new tenant and the landlord; or\n(c) prevent a landlord enforcing any decree obtained before the relevant day against a new tenant.\n(3) Any reference in this section to a relevant lease being assigned, or otherwise transferred, includes a reference to the lease being partially assigned or, as the case may be, partially transferred.\n(4) 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/7",
    "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."
}