{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-housing-tenancies-scotland-act-2016/schedule-1/paragraph-22",
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  "legislation": "asp/2016/19",
  "legislation_title": "Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-housing-tenancies-scotland-act-2016",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/22",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A tenancy cannot be a private residential tenancy if the landlord is—\n(a) a charity providing accommodation to veterans, or\n(b) a charity providing temporary accommodation to a care leaver.\n(2) For the purposes of this paragraph—\n“care leaver” is a person who—\n(a)is under the age of 26 years,\n(b)was on that person’s sixteenth birthday or at any subsequent time looked after by a local authority, and\n(c)is no longer looked after by a local authority; and “looked after” is to be construed in accordance with sections 17(6) (duty of local authority to child looked after by them) and 29(7) (after-care) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995,\n“charity” has the meaning given in section 106 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005, and\n“veteran” means a person who has served—\n(a)for at least one day in Her Majesty’s Armed Forces (regular and reserve), or\n(b)as a member of the Merchant Navy on a civilian vessel while supporting the Armed Forces.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 22 inserted (1.7.2019) by The Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016 (Modification of Schedule 1) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/216), regs. 1, 2 (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "asp/2026/17",
      "affecting_title": "Crofting and Scottish Land Court Act 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/19/schedule/1/paragraph/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:28.355400+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."
}