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Check if you need a short term lets licence

Will the guests be using the accommodation as their only or main home?

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Are the guests paying to stay in the accommodation?

This includes if you'll receive:

  • the use of another accommodation through a ‘home swap’ scheme
  • points which can be used to pay for accommodation

Only select 'Yes' if your home swap is done in the course of business.

 

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Are the guests members of your immediate family?

This includes you or your partner's:

  • parents
  • grandparents
  • children and stepchildren
  • grandchildren
  • siblings 
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Will the guests be working or providing a service for you, or another person who lives with you, while staying in the accommodation?

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Is the accommodation any of the following?

  • an aparthotel
  • premises which has a licence to sell alcohol under the Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005
  • a hotel which has planning permission granted for use as a hotel
  • a hostel
  • residential accommodation where personal care is provided to residents
  • a hospital or nursing home
  • a residential school, college or training centre
  • secure residential accommodation (including a prison, young offenders institution,detention centre, secure training centre, custody centre, short-term holding centre, secure hospital, secure local authority accommodation, or accommodation used as military barracks)
  • a refuge
  • student accommodation
  • accommodation which needs a licence for use for hire for overnight stays
  • accommodation which is provided by the guest
  • accommodation which can be used as transport, without needing modification
  • a bothy
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Are you letting your accommodation using an agricultural, crofting or private residential tenancy?

This means one of the following tenancies:

  • a protected tenancy (within the meaning of section 1 of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1984(7))
  • an assured tenancy ((within the meaning of section 12 of the 1988 Act)
  • a short assured tenancy ((within the meaning of section 32 of the 1988 Act)
  • a tenancy of a croft (Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993 
  • a tenancy of a holding situated outwith the crofting counties (within the meaning of section 61 of the 1993 Act) to which any provisions of the Small Landholders (Scotland) Acts 1886 to 1931(8)) applies
  • a Scottish secure tenancy (within the meaning of section 11 of the 2001 Act)
  • a short Scottish secure tenancy (within the meaning of section 34 of the 2001 Act)
  • a 1991 Act tenancy (within the meaning of section 1(4) of the 2003 Act)
  • a limited duration tenancy (within the meaning of section 93 of the 2003 Act)
  • a modern limited duration tenancy (within the meaning of section 5A of the 2003 Act)
  • a short limited duration tenancy (within the meaning of section 4 of the 2003 Act)
  • a tenancy under a lease under which agricultural land is let for the purpose of its being used only for grazing or mowing during some specified period of the year (as described in section 3 of the 2003 Act)
  • a private residential tenancy (within the meaning of section 1 of the 2016 Act)
  • a student residential tenancy
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Please select the description that applies to you

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You should apply for a short-term let licence

Based on your answers, you should apply for the following licence:

Aberdeen City Council Aberdeenshire Council Angus Council Argyll and Bute Council Clackmannanshire Council Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles Council) Dumfries & Galloway Council Dundee City Council East Ayrshire Council East Dunbartonshire Council East Lothian Council East Renfrewshire Council Edinburgh Council Falkirk Council Fife Council Glasgow City Council Highland Council Inverclyde Council Midlothian Council Moray Council North Ayrshire Council North Lanarkshire Council Orkney Islands Council Perth & Kinross Council Renfrewshire Council Scottish Borders Council Shetland Council South Ayrshire Council South Lanarkshire Council Stirling Council West Dunbartonshire Council West Lothian Council
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This is not a short-term let.

Based on your answer this is not a short-term let.

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