{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-rented-housing-scotland-act-2011/section-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-rented-housing-scotland-act-2011/section-26.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2011/14",
  "legislation_title": "Private Rented Housing (Scotland) Act 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-rented-housing-scotland-act-2011",
  "path": "section/26",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) A landlord commits an offence if the landlord fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with any requirement or condition contained in an overcrowding statutory notice within the period (if any) specified for completion.\n(2) A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2011/14/section/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:01.919510+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."
}