{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-secure-tenants-right-to-repair-regulations-2002/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-secure-tenants-right-to-repair-regulations-2002/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2002/316",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Secure Tenants (Right to Repair) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-secure-tenants-right-to-repair-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations–\n“the Act” means the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001;\n“landlord” means a landlord specified in regulation 4;\n“maximum period” means the period specified in regulation 10 and the Schedule;\n“primary contractor” means the contractor most frequently employed by a landlord to carry out qualifying repairs.\n“qualifying repair” means a repair specified as such in regulation 6 and the Schedule;\n“working day” means a day which is not a Saturday or a Sunday, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Good Friday, a bank holiday or a day appointed for public thanksgiving or mourning or any day on which the office of the landlord is closed by virtue of a local holiday.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2026/173",
      "affecting_title": "The Investigation and Commencement of Repair (Scotland) Regulations 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2002/316/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:40:35.093265+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."
}