Short term lets - licensing scheme part 2: supplementary guidance

Annex A - Licence number specification

The licence number will comprise 8 characters, three of which are alphabet (capital letters) and 5 of which are digits (D):

A1A2-DDDDD-A3

The leading two characters (A₁A₂) will identify the licensing authority:

Aberdeen City: AC

Aberdeenshire: AS

Angus: AN

Argyll and Bute: AR

Clackmannanshire: CL

Dumfries and Galloway: DG

Dundee: DD

East Ayrshire: EA

East Dunbartonshire: ED

East Lothian: EL

East Renfrewshire: ER

Edinburgh: EH

Falkirk: FK

Fife: FI

Glasgow: GL

Highland: HI

Inverclyde: IN

Midlothian: ML

Moray: MO

Na h-Eileanan Siar: ES

North Ayrshire: NA

North Lanarkshire: NL

Orkney: OR

Perth and Kinross: PK

Renfrewshire: RN

Scottish Borders: SB

Shetland: SH

South Ayrshire: SA

South Lanarkshire: SL

Stirling: ST

West Dunbartonshire: WD

West Lothian: WL

The 5 digits will be issued by each licensing authority.

The final character (A3 ) will denote the type of “licence”:

E: Temporary exemption

T: Temporary licence

P: Provisional licence (this may originally have been used for existing hosts but will be used for new build provisional licences too)

F: First (full) licence

R: Renewed licence

N: Application received from a new host or any host after 1 October 2023

Example

AC-13472-E

This number relates to a temporary exemption (E) in Aberdeen City (AC). The type of short-term let (e.g. home sharing) will be displayed on the public register.