{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-scotland-act-1947/section-235",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-scotland-act-1947/section-235.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/10-11/43",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-scotland-act-1947",
  "path": "section/235",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "235",
  "heading": "Rating authority may require owner to furnish statement of lets.",
  "text": "(1) . . . , a rating authority may require an owner of lands and heritages within the area of the authority to furnish a written statement of the periods for which the lands and heritages are let to the respective tenants or occupiers thereof . . . , which statement the owner shall be bound to furnish within seven days of being required in writing so to do.\n(2) Any owner of lands and heritages who fails without reasonable excuse to furnish such statement within the period aforesaid shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale, and any such owner who furnishes or causes to be furnished any false statement as to the period of let . . . knowing the same to be false shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty of level 3 on the standard scale",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), Sch. 29"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 30), Sch. 6 Pt. II para. 12, Sch. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289F, 289G"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289F, 289G"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:23:51.655435+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."
}