Long Leases (Scotland) Act 2012

58Collecting third party to disclose information

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(1)This section applies where a landlord or (as the case may be) former landlord receives or has at any time received from a third party an amount—

(a)collected in respect of rent from, and

(b)remitted to the landlord or former landlord on behalf of,

a tenant or (as the case may be) former tenant.

(2)The third party must—

(a)if required by the landlord or (as the case may be) former landlord for the purpose of serving notice under section 45(2),

(b)in so far as it is practicable, and

(c)as soon as is reasonably practicable,

disclose to the landlord or former landlord the information mentioned in subsection (3).

(3)The information referred to in subsection (2) is—

(a)the identity and address of the tenant or former tenant, and

(b)in a case where the rent remitted is part of a cumulo rent, the amount so collected from the tenant or former tenant.