{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-scotland-act-1984/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-scotland-act-1984/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/58",
  "legislation_title": "Rent (Scotland) Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-scotland-act-1984",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Statutory tenants and tenancies.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to sections 3A, 4 and 5 below—\n(a) after the termination of a protected tenancy of a dwelling-house the person who, immediately before that termination, was the protected tenant of the dwelling-house shall, so long as he retains possession of the dwelling-house without being entitled to do so under a contractual tenancy, be the statutory tenant of it; and\n(b) the provisions of Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect for determining what person (if any) is the statutory tenant of a dwelling-house at any time after the death of a person who, immediately before his death, was either a protected tenant of the dwelling-house or the statutory tenant of it by virtue of paragraph (a) above;\nand a dwelling-house is referred to as subject to a statutory tenancy when there is a statutory tenant of it.\n(2) A person who becomes a statutory tenant of a dwelling-house as mentioned in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) above is, in this Act, referred to as a statutory tenant by virtue of his previous protected tenancy, and a person who becomes a statutory tenant as mentioned in paragraph (b) of that subsection is, in this Act, referred to as a statutory tenant by succession.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "“3A,” inserted by Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 (c. 43, SIF 61), ss. 46(1), 52"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/58/section/3",
    "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."
}