{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/visitor-levy-scotland-act-2024/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/visitor-levy-scotland-act-2024/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2024/8",
  "legislation_title": "Visitor Levy (Scotland) Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/visitor-levy-scotland-act-2024",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Maximum number of nights of overnight accommodation",
  "text": "(1) A local authority seeking to introduce or modify a VL scheme may specify that a maximum number of nights may apply in respect of a chargeable transaction for the right to reside in or at that accommodation for a period of consecutive nights.\n(2) A local authority may only specify a maximum number of nights under subsection (1) if it has consulted—\n(a) such persons as they consider to be representative of communities, businesses engaged in tourism and tourist organisations, and\n(b) such other persons as they consider appropriate.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 7(1) inserted (21.7.2026) by Visitor Levy (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2026 (asp 18), s. 16(2)(i), sch. para. 18"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 7 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 79(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 7 in force at 20.9.2024 by S.S.I. 2024/231, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2024/8/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:08.798767+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."
}