{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-scotland-act-1984/section-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-scotland-act-1984/section-21.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/58",
  "legislation_title": "Rent (Scotland) Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-scotland-act-1984",
  "path": "section/21",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Compensation for misrepresentation or concealment in Cases 7 and 8.",
  "text": "Where, in such circumstances as are specified in Case 7 or Case 8 in Schedule 2 to this Act, a landlord obtains an order for possession of a dwellling-house let on a protected tenancy or subject to a statutory tenancy and it is subsequently made to appear to the First-tier Tribunal that the order was obtained by misrepresentation or concealment of material facts, the Tribunal may order the landlord to pay to the former tenant such sum as appears sufficient as compensation for damage or loss sustained by that tenant as a result of the order.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 21 substituted (1.12.2017) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 14), s. 104(3), sch. 1 para. 6; S.S.I. 2017/330, art. 3, sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/58/section/21",
    "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."
}