Part 1Registration of property factors

Property factor registered numbers

I1I213Property factor registered numbers

1

The Scottish Ministers must allocate a number to each registered property factor (the “property factor registered number”).

2

The property factor registered number may be in such form, consisting of one or more sequences of letters or numbers, as the Scottish Ministers may determine.

3

A registered property factor must take all reasonable steps to ensure that the property factor registered number is included in—

a

any document sent to a homeowner,

b

any other document or communication of such type as the Scottish Ministers may by order specify.

4

Any person other than a registered property factor who, without reasonable excuse, uses a number purporting to be a property factor registered number in any document or communication commits an offence.

5

Subsection (4) does not apply to a person who has been removed from the register under section 8(1) until—

a

the period within which any appeal under section 11(2) in relation to the removal may be made expires (without such an appeal being made), or

b

any such appeal is concluded.

6

A person guilty of an offence under subsection (4) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

7

For the purposes of subsection (5)(b), an appeal is concluded only when––

a

the period within which an appeal under section 11(9) may be made has expired without such an appeal being made, or

b

any such appeal has been concluded.