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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-housing-tenancies-scotland-act-2016-commencement-no-3-amendment-saving-provision-and-revocation-regulations-2017/schedule",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2017/346",
  "legislation_title": "The Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016 (Commencement No. 3, Amendment, Saving Provision and Revocation) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-housing-tenancies-scotland-act-2016-commencement-no-3-amendment-saving-provision-and-revocation-regulations-2017",
  "path": "schedule",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "PROVISIONS OF THE 2016 ACT COMING INTO FORCE ON 1stDECEMBER 2017",
  "text": "Column 1\nProvision of the 2016 Act\nColumn 2\nSubject matter\nColumn 3\nPurpose\nSection 1\nMeaning of private residential tenancy\nSection 2\nInterpretation of section 1 (of the 2016 Act)\nSection 3\nWriting not required to constitute private residential tenancy\nSection 4\nExtended meaning of tenancy in the 2016 Act\nSection 5\nExtended meaning of tenancy and related expressions in other enactments\nSection 6\nPower to modify schedule 1\nSection 7\nStatutory terms of tenancy\nInsofar as not already in force\nSection 9\nProtection of terms allowing use of shared living accommodation\nSection 10\nDuty to provide written terms of tenancy\nSection 13\nProhibition on charging for information\nSection 14\nApplication to First-tier Tribunal to draw up terms\nSection 15\nFirst-tier Tribunal’s power to draw up terms\nSection 16\nFirst-tier Tribunal’s power to sanction failure to provide information\nSection 17\nMeaning of notice period in sections 14 and 16 (of the 2016 Act)\nInsofar as not already in force\nSection 18\nMethod by which rent may be increased\nSection 19\nFrequency with which rent may be increased\nSection 20\nNo premiums, advance payments, etc.\nSection 21\nRestriction on diligence\nSection 22\nLandlord’s power to increase rent\nInsofar as not already in force\nSection 23\nModification of rent-increase notice by parties\nSection 24\nTenant’s right to refer increase to rent officer\nInsofar as not already in force\nSection 25\nRent officer’s power to set rent\nSection 26\nRent officer’s duty to issue provisional order\nSection 27\nRent officer’s power to correct final order\nSection 28\nRight of appeal to First-tier Tribunal\nSection 29\nFirst-tier Tribunal’s power to set rent\nSection 30\nFinality of First-tier Tribunal’s decision\nSection 31\nLiability of over or under paid rent\nSection 32\nDetermination of open market rent\nSection 33\nWithdrawal of referral or appeal\nSection 34(1)\nDuty to make information available\nSection 35\nRequest by local authority that a zone be designated\nSection 36\nScottish Ministers’ duty to react to request\nSection 37\nPower to designate a zone\nSection 38\nRestriction on rent increases within a zone\nSection 39\nLimits on power to designate a zone\nSection 40\nProcedure for designating a zone: consultation and information\nSection 41\nPower to change inflation index\nSection 42\nRent officer’s power to allow rent rise in consequence of improvement\nSection 43\nFurther provision about making and determining an application under section 42 (of the 2016 Act)\nInsofar as not already in force\nSection 44\nNo termination by parties except in accordance with Part 5 of the 2016 Act\nSection 45\nLandlord’s interest transfers with ownership of property\nSection 46\nProtection for sub-tenants\nSection 47\nQualification of sub-tenant protection\nSection 48\nTenant’s ability to bring tenancy to an end\nSection 49\nRequirements for notice to be given by tenant\nSection 50\nTermination by notice to leave and tenant leaving\nSection 51\nFirst-tier Tribunal’s power to issue an eviction order\nSection 52\nApplications for eviction orders and consideration of them\nSection 53\nFirst-tier Tribunal’s power to disapply protection for sub-tenants\nSection 54\nRestriction on applying during the notice period\nSection 55\nRestriction on applying 6 months after the notice period expires\nSection 56\nRestriction on applying without notifying local authority\nSection 57\nWrongful termination by eviction order\nSection 58\nWrongful termination without eviction order\nSection 59\nWrongful-termination order\nSection 60\nNotice to local authority of wrongful-termination order\nSection 61\n(Requirements of) Sub-tenancy notice to leave\nInsofar as not already in force\nSection 62\nRequirements of notice to leave and stated eviction ground\nInsofar as not already in force\nSection 63\nLandlord includes lender in some cases\nSection 64\nSix month periods\nSection 65\nTermination of tenancy on tenant’s death\nSection 66\nTermination of joint tenant’s interest on death\nSection 67\nPartner’s entitlement to inherit\nSection 68\nOther family member’s entitlement to inherit\nSection 69\nCarer’s entitlement to inherit\nSection 70\nInterpretation of Part 6 of the 2016 Act\nSection 71\nFirst-tier Tribunal’s jurisdiction\nSection 72\nFirst-tier Tribunal’s duty to report unregistered landlords\nSection 73\nMinor errors in documents\nSection 74\nConsequential modifications\nFor the purpose of commencing paragraphs 1 to 4 and 6 to 11 of schedule 4\nSection 75\nTransitional provision\nSchedule 1\nTenancies which cannot be private residential tenancies\nSchedule 3\nEviction grounds\nSchedule 4, paragraphs 1 to 4 and 6 to 11\nConsequential modifications\nSchedule 5\nTransition from regimes under earlier enactments",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "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."
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