{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-housing-tenancies-scotland-act-2016/section-61",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-housing-tenancies-scotland-act-2016/section-61.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/61",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Sub-tenancy notice to leave",
  "text": "(1) In addition to giving a tenant a notice to leave, a landlord (“the superior landlord”) may give to anyone who holds a tenancy directly or indirectly from the superior landlord's tenant a sub-tenancy notice to leave.\n(2) In the event that a person to whom a sub-tenancy notice to leave has been given becomes a tenant of the superior landlord by virtue of section 46(2), references in this Part to a notice to leave are to be read as references to the copy of the notice to leave which, in accordance with subsection (3), forms part of the sub-tenancy notice to leave.\n(3) A sub-tenancy notice to leave is a notice which—\n(a) incorporates the notice to leave given to the superior landlord's tenant, and\n(b) fulfils any other requirements prescribed by the Scottish Ministers in regulations.\n(4) In a case where two or more persons jointly are the landlord under a tenancy, a sub-tenancy notice to leave may be given by any one of those persons.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 61(1)(2)(4) in force at 1.12.2017 by S.S.I. 2017/346, reg. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 61(3) in force at 31.10.2016 for specified purposes by S.S.I. 2016/298, reg. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 61(3) 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": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/19/section/61",
    "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."
}