{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-scotland-act-1984/schedule-1/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-scotland-act-1984/schedule-1/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/58",
  "legislation_title": "Rent (Scotland) Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-scotland-act-1984",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The original tenant’s spouse or civil partner where the dwelling-house was that spouse’s or civil partner's only or principal home at the time of the tenant’s death shall be the statutory tenant so long as the said spouse or civil partner retains possession of the dwelling-house without being entitled to do so under a contractual tenancy.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 2 inserted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(10)(c), Sch. 28 para. 48(a); S.S.I. 2005/604, arts. 2(c), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 (c. 43, SIF 61), s. 72(2), Sch. 9 para. 5"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/58/schedule/1/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:01:00.324932+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."
}