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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-housing-tenancies-scotland-act-2016/section-48",
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  "legislation_title": "Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016",
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  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Tenant's ability to bring tenancy to an end",
  "text": "(1) A tenant may bring to an end a tenancy which is a private residential tenancy by giving the landlord a notice which fulfils the requirements described in section 49.\n(2) A tenancy comes to an end in accordance with subsection (1) on the day on which the notice states (in whatever terms) that it is to come to an end.\n(3) But a tenancy does not come to an end in accordance with subsection (1) if—\n(a) before the day mentioned in subsection (2), the tenant makes a request to the landlord to continue the tenancy after that day, and\n(b) the landlord agrees to the request.\n(4) In subsections (1) and (3), in a case where two or more persons jointly are the landlord under the tenancy, references to the landlord are to any of those persons.",
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      "text": "S. 48 in force at 1.12.2017 by S.S.I. 2017/346, reg. 2, sch."
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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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