Housing (Scotland) Act 2025
Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 (2025 asp 13)
- Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 (2025 asp 13)
- Part 1 Rent
- Chapter 1 Designation of rent control areas
- Rent conditions: assessments and reports
- 1 Periodic assessment of rent conditions
- 2 Report to Scottish Ministers following periodic assessment
- 3 Interim assessment and reports by local authorities
- Consideration of rent conditions reports
- 4 Scottish Ministers to review local authority report
- 5 Further assessment of rent conditions and report by local authority
- Ministerial guidance on local authority assessments and reports
- 6 Ministerial guidance on assessments of rent conditions
- 7 Ministerial guidance on reports following assessments of rent conditions
- Ministers’ decision on whether to designate rent control area
- 8 Scottish Ministers’ duty to report
- 9 Power to designate rent control area
- 10 Designation of rent control area: consultation
- 11 Duty to keep rent control area under review
- 12 Variation of rent controls in existing rent control area: consultation
- Properties subject to modified restrictions
- 13 Properties subject to modified rent control area restrictions
- Power to seek information relating to tenancies
- 14 Information that may be sought by local authority or the Scottish Ministers
- 15 Information sharing and cooperation between local authorities and the Scottish Ministers
- 16 Information holder’s failure to provide information sought
- 17 Information holder’s provision of false information
- 18 Scottish Ministers’ request for landlord information from local authorities
- Power to require landlords to provide information
- 19 Power to require landlords to provide information
- Expiry of rent control area: power to modify law
- 20 Power to modify law in connection with the expiry of rent control area
- Scottish Ministers: information and research
- 21 Scottish Ministers: information and research
- Chapter 2 Rent control areas: modifications of the 2016 Act
- Information about rent to be included in advertisements
- 22 Prospective landlords’ duty to include information about rent in advertisements
- Setting and variation of rent
- 23 Setting and variation of rent
- Chapter 3 Other restrictions on rent increases
- Frequency of rent increases
- 24 Private residential tenancies not in rent control area: frequency of rent increase
- Capping of rent increases on referral or appeal
- 25 Private residential tenancies: capping of rent increase
- 26 Assured tenancies: capping of rent increase
- Chapter 4 Review of the operation of Part 1 of the Act
- 27 Review of the operation of Part 1 of the Act
- Part 2 Dealing with evictions
- Evictions: duties to consider delay
- 28 Private residential tenancies: duty to consider delay to eviction
- 29 Scottish secure tenancies etc.: duty to consider delay to eviction
- 30 Assured tenancies: duty to consider delay to eviction
- 31 Protected tenancies and statutory tenancies: duty to consider delay to eviction
- Damages for unlawful eviction
- 32 Unlawful eviction: notification and damages
- Eviction grounds
- 33 Review of eviction grounds
- Payments for wrongful termination
- 34 Payments for wrongful termination
- Part 3 Keeping pets and making changes to let property
- 35 Private residential tenancies: keeping pets and making changes to let property
- 36 Scottish secure tenancies etc.: keeping pets
- Part 4 Other matters relating to tenants
- Unclaimed tenancy deposits
- 37 Use of unclaimed tenancy deposits
- Registration of letting agents etc.
- 38 Applications for registration
- 39 Duty to inform: change of circumstances
- 40 Revocation of registration: where agent no longer exists
- 41 Removal from register on application: notification of agent
- 42 Note on register where entry refused or removed: duration
- 43 Power to obtain information and carry out inspections
- Ending joint tenancies
- 44 Private residential tenancies: ending a joint tenancy
- Ending student tenancies
- 45 Student residential tenancies: power to enable tenant to bring tenancy to an end
- Social landlords: qualifying repairs
- 46 Social landlords: qualifying repairs
- Tolerable standard: damp
- 47 Tolerable standard: damp
- Succession to tenancies: qualifying periods
- 48 Private residential tenancies: succession
- 49 Scottish secure tenancies: succession
- Delivery of notices etc.
- 50 Social landlords: delivery of notices etc.
- Converting older tenancies
- 51 Assured tenancies: power to convert
- Part 5 Homelessness prevention
- Duties of relevant bodies
- 52 Duties of relevant bodies in relation to homelessness
- Homeless persons: intentionality
- 53 Power to modify provision about a person becoming homeless intentionally
- Assessment of housing support services
- 54 Assessment of housing support services
- Tenants affected by domestic abuse
- 55 Local authorities etc.: consideration of domestic abuse
- 56 Social landlords: pre-action requirement where domestic abuse is a factor in rent arrears
- 57 Social landlords: policies about supporting tenants affected by domestic abuse
- 58 Scottish Social Housing Charter: supporting tenants affected by domestic abuse
- Housing First
- 59 Annual report on Housing First
- Part 6 Other housing matters
- Mobile homes
- 60 Mobile homes: jurisdiction of the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland
- 61 New pitch fees: considerations
- 62 Meaning of “protected site”
- Decisions of the Scottish Housing Regulator: reviews and appeals
- 63 Decisions of the Scottish Housing Regulator: reviews and appeals
- Property factors
- 64 Registration: fit and proper person considerations
- 65 Revocation of registration: where property factor no longer exists
- 66 Removal from register following application
- 67 Note on register where refusal or removal
- 68 Property factor registered numbers: inclusion in communications
- 69 Monitoring of compliance
- Managers of related properties
- 70 Power for majority of owners to dismiss and appoint manager
- Fuel poverty
- 71 Fuel poverty strategy: consultation
- 72 Periodic reports: periods, consultation and publication etc.
- 73 Advisory panel: removal of funding cap
- New homes ombudsman
- 74 Disclosure of information to new homes ombudsman
- Council tax
- 75 Variation of council tax for unoccupied dwellings
- 76 Review of council tax arrears: joint and several liability
- 77 Review of classification of properties
- Housing revenue accounts
- 78 Transfer of funds into housing revenue account
- Housing emergency
- 79 Power to make provision about the declaration of a national housing emergency
- 80 Guidance for local authorities about a local housing emergency
- Part 7 Impact Assessment
- 81 Rural impact assessment
- Part 8 Final provisions
- 82 Regulations
- 83 Ancillary provision
- 84 Interpretation
- 85 Minor and consequential modifications
- 86 Commencement
- 87 Short title
- Schedule Minor and consequential modifications of enactments
- Rent (Scotland) Act 1984
- Housing (Scotland) Act 1988
- Housing (Scotland) Act 2001
- Housing (Scotland) Act 2006
- Property Factors (Scotland) Act 2011
- Housing (Scotland) Act 2014
- Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016
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