{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-scotland-act-1984/section-77",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-scotland-act-1984/section-77.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/58",
  "legislation_title": "Rent (Scotland) Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-scotland-act-1984",
  "path": "section/77",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "77",
  "heading": "Jurisdiction of the First-tier Tribunal.",
  "text": "Where a Part VII contract is referred to the First-tier Tribunal under this Part of this Act and—\n(a) the contract relates to a dwelling-house consisting of or comprising part only of lands and heritages, and\n(b) no apportionment of the rateable value of the lands and heritages has been made under section 7 above,\nthen, unless the lessor in the course of the proceedings requires that such an apportionment shall be made and, within two weeks of making the requirement, brings proceedings in the First-tier Tribunal for the making of the apportionment, the First-tier Tribunal shall have jurisdiction to deal with the reference if it appears to it that, had the apportionment been made, it would have had jurisdiction.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 77 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(22)(a) (with sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 77 substituted (1.12.2017) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 14), s. 104(3), sch. 1 para. 22; S.S.I. 2017/330, art. 3, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 77 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(22)(b)(i) (with sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in s. 77 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(22)(b)(ii) (with sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 77 title 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(23) (with sch. 1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/58/section/77",
    "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."
}