Coronavirus (Scotland) (No.2) Act 2020 (asp 10)

SCHEDULE 1 Protection of the individual

PART 1 Student residential tenancy: termination by tenant

Interpretation of this Part

1 (1) In this Part—

• “the 2016 Act” means the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016,

• “student” has the same meaning as in paragraph 5 of schedule 1 of the 2016 Act,

• “student residential tenancy” means a tenancy—

  (a)

  the purpose of which is to confer on the tenant the right to occupy the let property while the tenant is a student, and

  (b)

  to which sub-paragraph (2) or (3) of paragraph 5 of schedule 1 (tenancies which cannot be private residential tenancies) of the 2016 Act applies,

• “tenancy” includes sub-tenancy,

• “tenant” includes sub-tenant.

(2) In a case where two or more persons jointly are the landlord under a tenancy, references in this Part to the landlord are to any of those persons.

(3) In a case where two or more persons jointly are the tenant under a tenancy, references in this Part to the tenant are to all of those persons (except in paragraph 3(3)).