{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-housing-tenancies-scotland-act-2016/section-70",
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  "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/70",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "70",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Part—\n(a) two people are in a qualifying relationship with one another if they are—\n(i) married to each other,\n(ii) in a civil partnership with each other, or\n(iii) living together as though they were married,\n(b) a person is a member of a tenant's family if the person is—\n(i) a qualifying relative of the tenant,\n(ii) a qualifying relative of a person who was in a qualifying relationship with the tenant immediately before the tenant's death, or\n(iii) in a qualifying relationship with a qualifying relative of the tenant.\n(2) In subsection (1)(b), “a qualifying relative” means a parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, brother or sister.\n(3) For the purposes of this section—\n(a) a relationship of the half blood is to be regarded as a relationship of the whole blood,\n(b) a person's stepchild is to be regarded as the person's child,\n(c) a person (“A”) is to be regarded as the child of another person (“B”), if A is being or has been treated by B as B's child.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 70 in force at 1.12.2017 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/70",
    "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."
}