{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-housing-tenancies-scotland-act-2016/section-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-housing-tenancies-scotland-act-2016/section-24.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2016/19",
  "legislation_title": "Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-housing-tenancies-scotland-act-2016",
  "path": "section/24",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Tenant's right to refer increase to rent officer",
  "text": "(1) Having received a rent-increase notice, a tenant may make a referral to a rent officer for the area in which the let property is situated seeking an order under section 25.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) A referral to a rent officer under subsection (1) must be––\n(a) in the prescribed form,\n(b) accompanied by the prescribed fee (if any),\n(c) intimated by the tenant to the landlord in the prescribed manner, and\n(d) made before the end of the day falling 21 days after the tenant receives the notice.\n(4) In subsection (3), “prescribed” means prescribed by the Scottish Ministers by regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 24(2) repealed (1.4.2026) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 13), s. 86(2), sch. para. 7(2)(a); S.S.I. 2026/115, reg. 2(1)(5), sch. Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 24 modified (temp. until the end of 31.3.2024) (28.10.2022) by Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022 (asp 10), s. 13(1), sch. 1 para. 1(1)(8) (with ss. 1(2), 6, 7, 8) (as amended: (1.4.2023) by S.S.I. 2023/82, regs. 1(3), 2(2); and (27.9.2023) by S.S.I. 2023/275, regs. 1(2), 2(2)) (with savings for expiry in S.S.I. 2024/19, regs. 1(1), 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 24(1)(2) in force at 1.12.2017 by S.S.I. 2017/346, reg. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 24(3)(4) in force at 31.10.2016 for specified purposes by S.S.I. 2016/298, reg. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 24(3)(4) in force at 1.12.2017 in so far as not already in force by S.S.I. 2017/346, reg. 2, sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "asp/2025/13",
      "affecting_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/19/section/24",
    "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."
}