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Rent (Scotland) Act 1984
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45 Register of rents.S
(1)The rent officer for any area shall prepare and keep up to date a register for the purposes of this Part of this Act and shall make the register available for inspection in such place or places and in such manner as the Secretary of State may direct.
(2)The register shall contain, in addition to the rent payable under a regulated tenancy of a dwelling-house—
(a)the prescribed particulars with regard to the tenancy; and
(b)a specification of the dwelling-house.
(3)A copy of an entry in the register certified under the hand of the rent officer or any person duly authorised by him shall be receivable in evidence, and shall be sufficient evidence of that entry, in any court [F1 or tribunal] and in any proceedings.
(4)A person requiring such a certified copy shall be entitled to obtain it on payment of the prescribed fee.
(5)Any entry—
(a)in a register (hereinafter referred to as “the old register”)
(i)which was kept under section 39 of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971 before 16th May 1975, or
(ii)which is kept for any area which ceases to be a registration area as a result of the establishment of a new registration area, or
(b)in a separate part of an old register in which rents are registered for dwelling-houses in respect of tenancies to which sections 55 to 59 below apply.
which relates to a dwelling-house which is situated in a new registration area shall be deemed for the purposes of this Part of this Act to be an entry in the register or, as the case may be, in such a separate part of the register kept under this section for that new registration area.
(6)The old register shall be kept by such rent officer, and made available for inspection in such place or places and in such manner as the Secretary of State may direct; and subsections (3) and (4) above shall apply to any entry in the old register which is deemed to be an entry in the register kept for a new registration area.
(7)In this section “new registration area” means a registration area established under section 37 of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971 or section 43 above on or after 16th May 1975.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 45(3) inserted (1.12.2017) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 14), s. 104(3), sch. 1 para. 17; S.S.I. 2017/330, art. 3, sch.
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