{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-scotland-act-1984/section-75",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-scotland-act-1984/section-75.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/58",
  "legislation_title": "Rent (Scotland) Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-scotland-act-1984",
  "path": "section/75",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "75",
  "heading": "Power of First-tier Tribunal, in action for possession, to reduce period of notice to quit",
  "text": "In any case where—\n(a) a notice to quit a dwelling-house which is the subject of a Part VII contract has been served, and\n(b) the period at the end of which the notice to quit takes effect is for the time being extended by virtue of section 71 or section 72 above, and\n(c) at some time during that period the lessor institutes proceedings before the First-tier Tribunal for possesion of the dwelling-house, and\n(d) in those proceedings the Tribunal is satisfied that any of paragraphs (a) to (d) of section 74(2) above applies,\nthe Tribunal may direct that the period referred to in paragraph (b) above shall be reduced so as to end at a date specified in the direction.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 75 substituted (1.12.2017) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 14), s. 104(3), sch. 1 para. 20(a); S.S.I. 2017/330, art. 3, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 75 title substituted (1.12.2017) by virtue of Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 14), s. 104(3), sch. 1 para. 20(b); 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/75",
    "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."
}