Exercise of functions under this Part
16Naming of panel and re-naming of committees
(1)The panel constituted under Schedule 4 to the Rent (Scotland) Act 1984 (c.58), the president of the panel and committees constituted in accordance with that Schedule have, in addition to the functions mentioned in section 21(3) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 1), the functions conferred on them by this Act.
(2)When exercising the functions conferred on them by this Act, that panel and those committees are to be known as, respectively, the homeowner housing panel and homeowner housing committees.
(3)It is for the president to monitor the exercise by those committees of the functions conferred on them by this Act.
(4)Those committees must comply with any direction, and have regard to any guidance, given by the president in connection with the exercise of those functions.
(5)But the president may not give any such direction in relation to a particular case.
(6)Directions or guidance given under subsection (4) may be varied or revoked at any time.
(7)The president’s functions under this Act may, where the president is absent or incapacitated, be exercised by the vice-president of the panel.