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Housing (Scotland) Act 1987
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327 Disclosure of landlord’s identity.S
(1)If the tenant of premises occupied as a house makes a written request for the landlord’s name and address to any person who demands or to the last person who received rent payable under the tenancy or to any other person for the time being acting as agent for the landlord in relation to the tenancy, and that person fails without reasonable excuse to supply a written statement of the name and address within the period of 21 days beginning with the day on which he receives the tenant’s request, that person shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.
(2)In any case where—
(a)in response to a request under subsection (1), a tenant is supplied with the name and address of the landlord of the premises concerned; and
(b)the landlord is a body corporate; and
(c)the tenant makes a further written request to the landlord for information under this subsection,
the landlord shall, within the period of 21 days beginning with the day on which he receives the request under this subsection, supply to the tenant a written statement of the name and address of every director and the secretary of the landlord.
(3)Any reference in subsection (1) or subsection (2) to a person’s address is a reference to his place of abode or his place of business or, in the case of a company, its registered office.
(4)A request under subsection (2) shall be deemed to be duly made to the landlord if it is made to an agent of the landlord or to a person who demands the rent of the premises concerned, and any such agent or person to whom such a request is made shall as soon as may be forward it to the landlord.
(5)A landlord who fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a request under subsection (2) within the period mentioned in that subsection and a person who fails without reasonable excuse to comply with any requirement imposed on him by subsection (4) shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.
(6)In this section—
“landlord” means the immediate landlord and, in relation to premises occupied under a right conferred by an enactment, includes the person who, apart from that right, would be entitled to possession of the premises;
“tenant” includes a sub-tenant and a tenant under a right conferred by an enactment.
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