{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-scotland-act-1984/section-3B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-scotland-act-1984/section-3B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/58",
  "legislation_title": "Rent (Scotland) Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-scotland-act-1984",
  "path": "section/3B",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3B",
  "heading": "Succession after the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016 comes into force",
  "text": "(1) Subsection (2) applies where—\n(a) the sole tenant of a dwelling-house under a protected tenancy or a statutory tenancy dies on or after 1 December 2017, and\n(b) as a result of that death, an individual becomes the tenant of the dwelling-house by virtue of section 3(1)(b) or 3A above.\n(2) As soon as the individual becomes the tenant, the individual's tenancy of the dwelling-house—\n(a) ceases to be a statutory tenancy or a statutory assured tenancy (as the case may be), and\n(b) becomes a private residential tenancy as defined in the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 3B inserted (1.12.2017) by Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 19), s. 79(2), sch. 5 para. 4; S.S.I. 2017/346, reg. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 3B(1)(a) substituted (1.12.2017) by The Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016 (Commencement No. 3, Amendment, Saving Provision and Revocation) Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/346), regs. 1(1), 3(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/58/section/3B",
    "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."
}