{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-scotland-act-1984/schedule-6/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/58",
  "legislation_title": "Rent (Scotland) Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-scotland-act-1984",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where an application is referred to the First-tier Tribunal, then if the reference is under paragraph 2 above and it appears to the First-tier Tribunal that the information supplied by the applicant to the rent officer is insufficient to enable a certificate of fair rent to be issued it shall notify the applicant accordingly.\n(2) In any other case where an application is referred to the First-tier Tribunal, it shall serve on the applicant 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(3) Where, within the period specified under sub-paragraph (2) above or such further period as the First-tier Tribunal may allow, the applicant requests to make oral representations, the First-tier Tribunal shall give him an opportunity to be heard either in person or by a person authorised by him in that behalf, whether or not that person is an advocate or a solicitor.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 6 para. 7(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(29)(d)(i)(aa) (with sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 6 para. 7(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(29)(d)(i)(bb) (with sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 6 para. 7(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(29)(d)(i)(cc) (with sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 6 para. 7(2) 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(29)(d)(ii)(aa) (with sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 6 para. 7(2) 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(29)(d)(ii)(bb) (with sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 6 para. 7(3) 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(29)(d)(iii) (with sch. 1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/58/schedule/6/paragraph/7",
    "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."
}