{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/milk-cessation-of-production-scotland-scheme-1987/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/milk-cessation-of-production-scotland-scheme-1987/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/882",
  "legislation_title": "The Milk (Cessation of Production) (Scotland) Scheme 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/milk-cessation-of-production-scotland-scheme-1987",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Requirement for landlord’s consent",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subparagraph (2), where an application is made by a person who occupies his holding or any part thereof as a tenant, that person shall serve a copy of the application on his immediate landlord on the day on which he submits the application.\n(2) A person who occupies his holding as a tenant need not comply with the provisions of subparagraph (1) if, in respect of each of the landlords of the holding in relation to which the application is made, or of each part thereof occupied by the applicant as a tenant, either–\n(a) he has obtained the consent in writing of that landlord to the application; or\n(b) that landlord has unreasonably refused his consent to the application.\n(3) Where within 21 days of the receipt of a copy of an application served in accordance with subparagraph (1) or of a notice served in accordance with paragraph 11, a landlord objects to the application by notice served on the tenant and (where the Secretary of State is neither the landlord nor the tenant) the Secretary of State, on one or more of the grounds specified in paragraph 9, the tenant shall be deemed to have withdrawn his application for compensation unless, within 14 days of receipt of that notice of objection the tenant–\n(a) by notice served on that landlord, demands that the question whether that objection should be upheld or not shall be referred to arbitration; and\n(b) (where the Secretary of State is neither the landlord nor the tenant) by notice served on the Secretary of State, informs him of that demand.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/882/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:26:32.277299+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."
}