{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-scotland-act-1984/schedule-5/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-scotland-act-1984/schedule-5/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/58",
  "legislation_title": "Rent (Scotland) Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-scotland-act-1984",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The First-tier Tribunal to whom a matter is referred under paragraph 7 above—\n(a) may by notice in the prescribed form served on the landlord or the tenant require him to give to the First-tier Tribunal, within such period of not less than 14 days from the service of the notice as may be specified in the notice, such further information, in addition to any given to the rent officer in pursuance of paragraph 1 above, as it may reasonably require; and\n(b) shall serve on the landlord and on the tenant a notice specifying a period of not less than 14 days from the service of the notice during which either representations in writing or a request to make oral representations may be made by him to the First-tier Tribunal.\n(2) If any person fails without reasonable cause to comply with any notice served on him under sub-paragraph (1)(a) above, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(3) Where an offence under sub-paragraph (2) above committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager or secretary or other similar officer of the body corportate or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 8(1) substituted (1.12.2016) by The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Transfer of Functions of the Private Rented Housing Committees) Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/337), reg. 1(2), sch. 2 para. 1(28)(c)(i) (with sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 8(1) substituted (1.12.2016) by The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Transfer of Functions of the Private Rented Housing Committees) Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/337), reg. 1(2), sch. 2 para. 1(28)(c)(ii) (with sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 5 para. 8(1) substituted (1.12.2016) by The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Transfer of Functions of the Private Rented Housing Committees) Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/337), reg. 1(2), sch. 2 para. 1(28)(c)(iii) (with sch. 1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/58/schedule/5/paragraph/8",
    "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."
}