Section 88 Recovery of premiums and loans unlawfully required or received.C3C1C2
Where under any agreement (whether made before or after 12th August 1971) any premium is paid after 12th August 1971 and the whole or any part of that premium could not lawfully be required or received under the preceding provisions of this Part of this Act, the amount of the premium or, as the case may be, so much of it as could not lawfully be required or received, shall be recoverable by the person by whom it was paid.
Nothing in section 82 or 83 above shall invalidate any agreement for the making of a loan or any security issued in pursuance of such an agreement but, notwithstanding anything in the agreement for the loan, any sum lent in circumstances involving a contravention of either of those sections shall be repayable to the lender on demand.
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Modifications
- C1
Ss. 86-90 applied (1.12.2017) by Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 19), ss. 20(1), 79(2); S.S.I. 2017/346, reg. 2, sch.
- C2
S. 88 applied (with modifications) (1.4.2026) by 2016 asp 19, s. 43J (as inserted by Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 13), ss. 23(4), 86(2); S.S.I. 2026/115, reg. 2(1)(5), sch. Pt. 1)
- C3
Ss. 82, 83, 86–90 applied (with modifications) by Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 (c. 43, SIF 61), ss. 27, 52