{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-housing-tenancies-scotland-act-2016/section-43C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-housing-tenancies-scotland-act-2016/section-43C.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/43C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "43C",
  "heading": "Meaning of “relevant rent increase”",
  "text": "(1) In this Part, “relevant rent increase”, in relation to a current tenancy, means—\n(a) an increase in the amount payable in rent under a previous private residential tenancy or an assured tenancy of a property that is the same or substantially the same as the property let (or to be let) under the current tenancy (“a relevant tenancy”),\n(b) a setting of the initial rent under a relevant tenancy (“tenancy A”) if—\n(i) that initial rent is an amount exceeding the final rent under the relevant tenancy that immediately preceded tenancy A (“tenancy B”),\n(ii) tenancy B ended no more than 12 months before the start of tenancy A, and\n(iii) the property let under tenancy A is not an excluded property as mentioned in subsection (2).\n(2) For the purpose of subsection (1), property let under tenancy A is an excluded property if—\n(a) the property was purchased by the landlord under tenancy A with vacant possession, and\n(b) tenancy A was the first private residential tenancy or assured tenancy granted by the landlord since the purchase.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 4A inserted (1.4.2026) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 13), ss. 23(4), 86(2); S.S.I. 2026/115, reg. 2(1)(5), sch. Pt. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/19/section/43C",
    "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."
}