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<Title><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2025/13" id="c00001" Class="ScottishAct" Year="2025" Number="0013">Housing (Scotland) Act 2025</Citation>
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<Number>13</Number>
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<DateText>6 November 2025</DateText>
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<Title><CitationSubRef id="c00139" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2025/13/section/45" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-45">Section 45</CitationSubRef> - Student residential tenancies: power to enable tenant to bring tenancy to an end</Title>
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<Text>This section confers a regulation-making power on the Scottish Ministers to make provision for or in connection with enabling a tenant under a student residential tenancy to bring to an end the tenancy in such circumstances, and subject to such requirements, as may be specified. Regulations may not be made under this power unless the Scottish Ministers have consulted persons who appear to them to represent the interests of tenants and landlords under such tenancies, and a draft of the regulations has been laid before, and approved by, the Scottish Parliament.</Text>
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