Rent (Scotland) Act 1984

1984 CHAPTER 58

An Act to consolidate in relation to Scotland certain enactments relating to rents and tenants’ rights and connected matters.

[31st October 1984]

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 A Table showing the derivation of the provisions of this consolidation Act will be found at the end of the Act. The Table has no official status.

C2 Act modified by Fire Precautions Act 1971 (c. 40, SIF 50), s. 34, Sch. 1 Pt. III

C3 Act excluded by Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (c. 26, SIF 61), ss. 55(4), 103, 128, 145, 335; and Act excluded (27.5.1997) by 1997 c. 8, ss. 199(2), 278(2)

C4 Act applied by National Health Service and Community Health Care Act 1990 (c. 19, SIF 113:2), s. 60(2), Sch. 8 Pt. III para. 20(3)

C5 Act: definition of "statutory tenant" applied (30.11.1991) by Coal Mining Subsidence Act 1991 (c. 45, SIF 86), s. 22(1), Sch. 4 para. 1 (4)(c) (with s. 37(4), Sch. 7); S.I. 1991/2508, art. 2

C6 Act restricted (3.9.2007) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 1), ss. 38(10), 195(3) (with s. 193); S.S.I. 2007/270, art. 3

C7 Act restricted (31.8.2011) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 1), s. 195(3), sch. 5 para. 3(10) (with s. 193); S.S.I. 2010/159, art. 3

C8 Act modified (temp.) (28.10.2022) by Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022 (asp 10), s. 13(1), sch. 2 para. 6 (with ss. 1(2), 6, 7, 8) (as amended (1.4.2023) by S.S.I. 2023/82, regs. 1(3), 2(2)); and (27.9.2023) by S.S.I. 2023/275, regs. 1(2), 2(2))