# Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016, Section 1: Meaning of private residential tenancy

Extent: S

(1) A tenancy is a private residential tenancy where—
(a) the tenancy is one under which a property is let to an individual (“the tenant”) as a separate dwelling,
(b) the tenant occupies the property (or any part of it) as the tenant's only or principal home, and
(c) the tenancy is not one which schedule 1 states cannot be a private residential tenancy.
(2) A tenancy which is a private residential tenancy does not cease to be one by reason only of the fact that subsection (1)(b) is no longer satisfied.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/19/section/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/private-housing-tenancies-scotland-act-2016/section-1
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