Part 3—Residential tenancies: rent adjudication
18.Section 10 introduces schedule 3 which inserts a regulation-making power—
into the 2016 Act, that can be used by the Scottish Ministers on or in anticipation of the expiry or suspension of paragraph 1 of schedule 1, to modify Chapter 2 of Part 4 of the 2016 Act in relation to private residential tenancies in connection with the rent adjudication process before a rent officer or the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (“First-tier Tribunal”), and
into the 1988 Act, that can be used by the Scottish Ministers on or in anticipation of the expiry or suspension of paragraph 2 of schedule 1, to modify Part 2 of the 1988 Act in relation to assured tenancies and short assured tenancies in connection with the rent adjudication process before the First-tier Tribunal.
19.Section 11 expires section 10 at the end of 31 March 2024, unless the Scottish Parliament approves draft regulations (to be made using the power in subsection (2)) providing for the expiry of section 10 up to one year later. This power may be used more than once. Regulations under subsection (2) are subject to the affirmative procedure. If the Scottish Ministers lay any such draft regulations before the Scottish Parliament they must, at the same time, lay a statement of their reasons.
