{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/letting-agent-code-of-practice-scotland-regulations-2016/schedule/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/letting-agent-code-of-practice-scotland-regulations-2016/schedule/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2016/133",
  "legislation_title": "The Letting Agent Code of Practice (Scotland) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/letting-agent-code-of-practice-scotland-regulations-2016",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Who does the Code apply to?",
  "text": "The Code applies to every person who carries out letting agency work in Scotland, which is defined in section 61(1) of the 2014 Act as:\n“things done by a person in the course of that person’s business in response to relevant instructions which are—\n(a) carried out with a view to a landlord who is a relevant person entering into, or seeking to enter into a lease or occupancy agreement by virtue of which an unconnected person may use the landlord’s house as a dwelling, or\n(b) for the purposes of managing a house (including in particular collecting rent, inspecting the house and making arrangements for the repair, maintenance, improvement or insurance of the house) which is, or is to be, subject to a lease or arrangement mentioned in paragraph (a).”",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 5 in force at 31.1.2018, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/133/schedule/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:24:26.828315+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."
}