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			(Scotland) Act 2016</dc:title><dc:description>An Act of the Scottish Parliament to make provision about private rented housing; in particular to establish a new type of tenancy to be known as a private residential tenancy.</dc:description><dc:type>text</dc:type><dc:format>text/xml</dc:format><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:publisher>Statute Law Database</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2026-05-05</dc:modified><dc:contributor>Expert Participation</dc:contributor><dct:valid>2026-05-01</dct:valid>
					
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				</ukm:Metadata><Primary><Body DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/19/body" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2016/19/body" NumberOfProvisions="131" RestrictExtent="S" RestrictStartDate="2026-05-01"><Part DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/19/part/5A" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2016/19/part/5A" NumberOfProvisions="15" id="part-5A" RestrictStartDate="2026-04-01"><Number><Strong><Addition ChangeId="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317-1776937096755" CommentaryRef="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317">Part 5A</Addition></Strong></Number><Title><Addition ChangeId="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317-1776937096755" CommentaryRef="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317">keeping pets and making changes to let property</Addition></Title><Chapter DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/19/part/5A/chapter/1" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2016/19/part/5A/chapter/1" NumberOfProvisions="7" id="part-5A-chapter-1" RestrictStartDate="2026-04-01"><Number><Addition ChangeId="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317-1776937096755" CommentaryRef="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317">Chapter 1</Addition></Number><Title><Addition ChangeId="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317-1776937096755" CommentaryRef="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317">Keeping pets</Addition></Title><P1group RestrictStartDate="2026-04-01"><Title><Addition ChangeId="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317-1776937096755" CommentaryRef="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317">Tenant’s right to keep a pet</Addition></Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/19/section/64A" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2016/19/section/64A" id="section-64A"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317-1776937096755" CommentaryRef="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317">64A</Addition></Pnumber><P1para><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/19/section/64A/1" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2016/19/section/64A/1" id="section-64A-1"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317-1776937096755" CommentaryRef="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317">1</Addition></Pnumber><P2para><Text><Addition ChangeId="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317-1776937096755" CommentaryRef="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317">A tenant under a private residential tenancy to which this Chapter applies may keep a pet (or pets) at the let property with the landlord’s consent (but see subsection (4)).</Addition></Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/19/section/64A/2" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2016/19/section/64A/2" id="section-64A-2"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317-1776937096755" CommentaryRef="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317">2</Addition></Pnumber><P2para><Text><Addition ChangeId="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317-1776937096755" CommentaryRef="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317">The landlord’s consent may not be unreasonably refused (see also section 64E).</Addition></Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/19/section/64A/3" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2016/19/section/64A/3" id="section-64A-3"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317-1776937096755" CommentaryRef="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317">3</Addition></Pnumber><P2para><Text><Addition ChangeId="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317-1776937096755" CommentaryRef="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317">Where a landlord has consented to the keeping of a pet by the tenant at the let property, the tenant may keep the pet at the let property until the end of the tenancy subject to any reasonable conditions imposed by the landlord in connection with the consent to keep the pet.</Addition></Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/19/section/64A/4" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2016/19/section/64A/4" id="section-64A-4"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317-1776937096755" CommentaryRef="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317">4</Addition></Pnumber><P2para><Text><Addition ChangeId="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317-1776937096755" CommentaryRef="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317">A tenant under a private residential tenancy may keep a pet at the let property without the consent of the landlord if the terms of the tenancy allow the tenant to do so without such consent.</Addition></Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/19/section/64A/5" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2016/19/section/64A/5" id="section-64A-5"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317-1776937096755" CommentaryRef="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317">5</Addition></Pnumber><P2para><Text><Addition ChangeId="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317-1776937096755" CommentaryRef="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317">This Chapter applies to a private residential tenancy if the term mentioned in paragraph 9 of schedule 2 is a statutory term of the tenancy.</Addition></Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/19/section/64A/6" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2016/19/section/64A/6" id="section-64A-6"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317-1776937096755" CommentaryRef="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317">6</Addition></Pnumber><P2para><Text><Addition ChangeId="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317-1776937096755" CommentaryRef="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317">In this Chapter—</Addition></Text><UnorderedList Class="Definition" Decoration="none"><ListItem><Para><Text><Addition ChangeId="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317-1776937096755" CommentaryRef="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317">“</Addition><Term><Addition ChangeId="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317-1776937096755" CommentaryRef="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317">animal</Addition></Term><Addition ChangeId="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317-1776937096755" CommentaryRef="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317">” does not include a dangerous wild animal within the meaning given by section 7(4) of the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976,</Addition></Text></Para></ListItem><ListItem><Para><Text><Addition ChangeId="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317-1776937096755" CommentaryRef="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317">“</Addition><Term><Addition ChangeId="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317-1776937096755" CommentaryRef="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317">pet</Addition></Term><Addition ChangeId="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317-1776937096755" CommentaryRef="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317">” means an animal kept by a person mainly for—</Addition></Text><OrderedList Type="alpha" Decoration="parens"><ListItem id="p04774"><Para><Text><Addition ChangeId="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317-1776937096755" CommentaryRef="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317">personal interest (including as regards its welfare, treatment or training),</Addition></Text></Para></ListItem><ListItem><Para><Text><Addition ChangeId="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317-1776937096755" CommentaryRef="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317">companionship,</Addition></Text></Para></ListItem><ListItem id="p04782"><Para><Text><Addition ChangeId="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317-1776937096755" CommentaryRef="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317">ornamental purposes,</Addition></Text></Para></ListItem><ListItem><Para><Text><Addition ChangeId="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317-1776937096755" CommentaryRef="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317">any combination of paragraphs (a) to (c).</Addition></Text></Para></ListItem></OrderedList></Para></ListItem></UnorderedList></P2para></P2></P1para></P1></P1group></Chapter></Part></Body></Primary><Commentaries><Commentary id="key-8112fb098066cb519d2599e570ad4317" Type="F"><Para><Text><CitationSubRef id="c5xllgg76-00045" SectionRef="part-5A" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2016/19/part/5A">Pt. 5A</CitationSubRef> inserted (1.4.2026 for the purpose of inserting ss. 64B(1)(3), 64C(3), 64E, 64F, 64G, 64I(1)(3), 64J(3), 64L, 64M, 64N, and 64O to enable the Scottish Ministers to consult or make regulations) by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2025/13" id="c5xllgg76-00046" Class="ScottishAct" Year="2025" Number="13" Title="Housing (Scotland) Act 2025">Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 13)</Citation>, <CitationSubRef CitationRef="c5xllgg76-00046" id="c5xllgg76-00047" SectionRef="section-35-2" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2025/13/section/35/2" Operative="true">ss. 35(2)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef CitationRef="c5xllgg76-00046" id="c5xllgg76-00048" SectionRef="section-86-2" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2025/13/section/86/2">86(2)</CitationSubRef>; <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2026/115" id="c5xllgg76-00049" Class="ScottishStatutoryInstrument" Year="2026" Number="115" Title="The Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2026">S.S.I. 2026/115</Citation>, <CitationSubRef CitationRef="c5xllgg76-00049" id="c5xllgg76-00050" SectionRef="regulation-2-1" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2026/115/regulation/2/1">reg. 2(1)</CitationSubRef><CitationSubRef CitationRef="c5xllgg76-00049" id="c5xllgg76-00051" SectionRef="regulation-2-5" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2026/115/regulation/2/5">(5)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef CitationRef="c5xllgg76-00049" id="c5xllgg76-00052" SectionRef="schedule-part-1" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2026/115/schedule/part/1">sch. 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