{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-secure-tenants-compensation-for-improvements-regulations-2002/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2002/312",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Secure Tenants (Compensation for Improvements) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-secure-tenants-compensation-for-improvements-regulations-2002",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations introduce provisions for compensation for qualifying improvement work payable at the termination of a Scottish secure tenancy.\nRegulation 3 prescribes qualifying improvement work with reference to the Schedule which details improvements that are to be regarded as qualifying improvements and the notional life of those improvements.\nRegulation 4 prescribes the lower limit for compensation and specifies circumstances where no compensation is payable.\nRegulation 5 provides a formula for calculating compensation and specifies the upper limit for compensation.\nRegulation 6 sets out the procedure to be followed in relation to compensation claims.\nRegulation 7 provides that a landlord can set off against compensation sums due to it by a qualifying person.\nRegulation 8 sets out the procedures for review of decisions and allows a right of appeal to the sheriff.\nThese Regulations only apply in relation to improvement work begun after the Regulations come into effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2002/312/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:40:38.142796+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."
}