Housing (Scotland) Act 2006

22 Application to private rented housing panel

(1) A tenant may apply to the private rented housing panel for determination of whether the landlord has failed to comply with the duty imposed by section 14(1)(b).

(2) An application under subsection (1) must set out the tenant’s reasons for considering that the landlord has failed to comply with that duty.

(3) No such application may be made unless the tenant has notified the landlord that work requires to be carried out for the purpose of complying with that duty.

(4) No such application may be made where the landlord is—

(a) a local authority landlord (within the meaning of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 (asp 10)),

(b) a registered social landlord (being a body registered in the register maintained under section 57 of that Act),

(c) Scottish Homes, or

(d) Scottish Water.

(5) Schedule 2 makes further provision about the procedure for making and determining an application under this section.

(6) Paragraph (c) of subsection (4) is to cease to have effect on the date specified in an order made under section 87(1) (power to dissolve Scottish Homes) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 (asp 10).