The Scottish Secure Tenancies (Abandoned Property) Order 2002

Charges payable

5.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) of this article, where at any time prior to the sale or disposal of property under this Order the tenant, or any other person who appears to the landlord to have a right of ownership or of possession in the property, arranges for delivery to the tenant or such other person of any item the landlord shall relinquish custody of that item upon receipt of a payment equal to the amount of any costs incurred by the landlord in complying with this Order in relation to that item or such lesser amount (including a nil amount) as the landlord may think fit.

(2) Nothing in this article shall affect the landlord’s exercise of its right of hypothec.