Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Private Landlord Registration (Information and Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 1st January 2006.
(2) In these Regulations “the 2004 Act” means the Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004.
(3) In Schedule 2 to these Regulations, “lead owner”(1) means the person, where applicable, who is designated as such in the application for registration under section 83 of the 2004 Act.
Application for registration – prescribed information
2.—(1) An application for registration under section 83 of the 2004 Act shall contain, in addition to the information listed there, the information prescribed and set out in Schedule 1 to these regulations.
(2) Where Schedule 1 prescribes information which is not applicable to a relevant person (as defined in section 83 of the 2004 Act), the relevant person should indicate on the application for registration that the information is not applicable to the relevant person.
Registration – how fees are to be arrived at
3. Schedule 2 prescribes the method of establishing the fee to accompany an application for registration under section 83 of the 2004 Act.
Notification of changes to information provided for registration – fees
4.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), no fee shall be payable by a registered person who is required to give notice of a change in circumstances in terms of section 87 of the 2004 Act.
(2) Where the change in circumstances to be notified includes information in terms of section 83(1)(b) of the 2004 Act relating to a house which is not already entered in the register maintained in terms of section 82 of the 2004 Act, the fee shall be calculated in accordance with the first entry in paragraph 4 of Schedule 2.
MALCOLM CHISHOLM
A member of the Scottish Executive
St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh
9th November 2005