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        Rent (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 58)
        Introductory Text
        Main body
        Part I Preliminary
        1. Protected tenancies.
        2. Tenancies excepted from definition of"protected tenancy".
        3. Statutory tenants and tenancies.
        3A. Statutory tenants and tenancies: further provision as to succession.
        4. No protected or statutory tenancy where landlord's interest belongs to Crown.
        5. No protected or statutory tenancy where landlord's interest belongs to local authority, etc.
        6. No protected tenancy where landlord's interest belongs to resident landlord.
        7. Rateable value and the appropriate day.
        8. Regulated tenancies.
        9. Short tenancies.
        10. Premises with business use.
        Part II Security of Tenure
        11. Grounds for possession of certain dwelling-houses.
        12. Extended discretion of court in claims for possession of certain dwelling-houses.
        13. Effect of tenancy being short tenancy.
        14. Conditions applying to landlord's right to recovery of possession.
        15. Terms and conditions of statutory tenancies.
        16. Payments demanded by statutory tenants as a condition of giving up possession.
        17. Change of statutory tenant by agreement.
        18. No pecuniary consideration to be required on change of tenant under s. 17.
        19. Effect on sub-tenancies of determination of tenancy.
        20. Effect on furnished sub-tenancy of determination of superior unfurnished tenancy.
        21. Compensation for misrepresentation or concealment in Cases 7 and 8.
        Part III Protection against Harassment and Eviction without due process of Law
        22. Unlawful eviction and harassment of occupier.
        23. Prohibition of eviction without due process of law.
        23A. Excluded tenancies and occupancy rights.
        24. Special provisions with respect to agricultural employees.
        25. Interpretation.
        26. Application to Crown.
        27. Application to sheriff
        Part IV Rents under Regulated Tenancies
        28. Limit of rent during contractual periods.
        29. Limit of rent during statutory periods
        30. . . .
        31. Adjustment, with respect to services and furniture, of recoverable rent for statutory periods before registration.
        32. Notices of increase.
        33. Limits on rent increases
        34. Rent agreements.
        35. Rent agreements: special provisions following conversion.
        36. Failure to comply with provisions of rent agreements.
        37. Recovery from landlord of sums paid in excess of recoverable rent, etc.
        38. Onus on landlord.
        39. Rectification of rent books in light of determina-tion of recoverable rent.
        40. Adjustment for differences in lengths of rental periods.
        41. Regulations.
        42. Interpretation of Part IV.
        Part V Registration of Rents under Regulated Tenancies
        43. Registration areas and rent officers.
        43A. Rent registration service providers.
        43B. Supplementary provisions regarding rent registration service providers.
        43C. Rent registration service providers: restrictions on disclosure of information.
        44. Rent assessment committees.
        45. Register of rents.
        46. Applications for registration of rents.
        47. Certificates of fair rent.
        48. Determination of fair rent.
        49. Amount to be registered as rent.
        49A. Transitional applications: regulated tenancies
        50. Effect of registration of rent.
        51. Cancellation of registration of rent.
        52. Cancellation at instance of landlord.
        53. Regulations.
        54. Interpretation of Part V.
        Part VI Rent Limit for Dwelling-houses Let by Housing Associations and the Housing Corporation
        55. Tenancies to which sections 55 to 59 apply.
        56. Rents to be registrable under Part V.
        57. The rent limit.
        58. Phasing of progression to registered rent.
        59. Increase of rent without notice to quit.
        60. Supplemental to sections 55 to 59.
        61. Interpretation of Part VI.
        Part VII Part VII Contracts
        62. Registration areas for purposes of Part VII.
        63. Part VII contracts.
        64. Dwelling-houses to which Part VII applies.
        65. References of contracts to rent assessment committees and obtaining by them of information.
        66. Powers of rent assessment committees on reference of contracts.
        66A. Transitional references of Part VII contracts
        67. Register of rents under Part VII contracts.
        68. Reconsideration of rent after registration.
        69. Effect of registration of rent.
        70. Cancellation of entries in register at instance of landlord.
        71. Notice to quit served after reference of contract to rent assessment committee.
        72. Application to rent assessment committee for security of tenure where notice to quit is served.
        73. Notices to quit served by owner-occupiers.
        74. Reduction of period of notice on account of lessee's default.
        75. Power of sheriff, in action for possession, to reduce period of notice to quit.
        76. Notice to quit relating to later Part VII contracts.
        77. Jurisdiction of rent assessment committees.
        78. Publication of information.
        79. Rent book to be provided.
        80. Regulations.
        81. Interpretation of Part VII.
        Part VIII Premiums, etc.
        82. Prohibition of premiums and loans on grant of protected tenancies.
        83. Prohibition of premiums and loans on assignation of protected tenancies.
        84. Power to charge premium on assignation of tenancy where premium lawfully charged on earlier assignation.
        85. Prohibition of premiums on grant, etc. of Part VII contracts.
        86. Excessive price for furniture to be treated as premium.
        87. Punishment of attempts to obtain from prospective tenants excessive prices for furniture.
        88. Recovery of premiums and loans unlawfully required or received.
        89. Avoidance of requirements for advance payment of rent in certain cases.
        90. Interpretation of Part VIII.
        Part IX Heritable Securities
        91. Heritable securities to which Part IX applies.
        92. Regulated heritable securities.
        93. Powers of court to mitigate hardship.
        94. Miscellaneous.
        Part X Miscellaneous and General
        95. Release from rent regulation.
        96. Provisions where tenant shares accommodation with landlord.
        97. Provisions where tenant shares accommodation with persons other than landlord.
        98. Application of Part VII to tenancies falling within section 6.
        99. Certain sublettings not to exclude any part of sublessor's premises from protection under the Act.
        100. Obligation to notify sublettings of dwelling-houses let on or subject to protected or statutory tenancies.
        101. Landlord's consent to work.
        102. Jurisdiction.
        103. Application to sheriff.
        104. Rules as to procedure.
        105. Powers of local authorities for the purposes of giving information.
        106. Consent of tenant.
        107. Prosecution of offences.
        108. Service of notices on landlord's agents.
        109. Rents of subsidised private houses.
        110. Restriction on sequestration for rent.
        111. Implied condition in all protected tenancies.
        112. Minimum length of notice to quit.
        113. Rent book to be provided.
        114. Service of notices.
        115. Interpretation.
        116. Application to Crown property.
        117. Amendments, trasitional provisions, repeals, etc.
        118. Short title, commencement and extent.
        Schedules
        SCHEDULE 1 Statutory Tenants by Succession
        Schedule 1A Statutory or Statutory Assured Tenants by Succession in a case to which section 3A(1) applies
        Schedule 1B Statutory Assured Tenants by Succession in a case to which section 3A(2) applies
        SCHEDULE 2 Grounds for Possession of Dwelling-Houses Let on or Subject to Protected or Statutory Tenancies
        Part I Cases in which Court may Order Possession
        Part II Cases in which Court must Order Possession where Dwelling-House Subject to Regulated Tenancy
        Part III Provisions Applicable to Case 8 and Part II above
        Part IV Suitable Alternative Accommodation
        SCHEDULE 3 . . .
        SCHEDULE 4 Rent Assessment Committees
        SCHEDULE 5 Applicatons for Registration of Rents
        Part I Applications Unsupported by Certificate of Fair Rent
        Part II Applications Supported by Certificate of Fair Rent
        Part III Supplemental
        SCHEDULE 6 Certificates of Fair Rent
        SCHEDULE 7 Premium allowed on assignation of Tenancy where Premium lawfully paid on Grant
        SCHEDULE 8 Enactments Amended
        Part I
        Part II
        SCHEDULE 9 Savings and Transitional Provisions
        SCHEDULE 10 Enactments Repealed

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