Section 71 First-tier Tribunal's jurisdictionI1

(1)

In relation to civil proceedings arising from a private residential tenancy—

(a)

the First-tier Tribunal has whatever competence and jurisdiction a sheriff would have but for paragraph (b),

(b)

a sheriff does not have competence or jurisdiction.

(2)

For the purposes of subsection (1), civil proceedings are any proceedings other than—

(a)

the prosecution of a criminal offence,

(b)

any proceedings related to such a prosecution.

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