The Private Rented Housing (Scotland) Act 2011 (Commencement No. 6 and Savings Provisions) Order 2013

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Private Rented Housing (Scotland) Act 2011 (Commencement No. 6 and Savings Provisions) Order 2013 and comes into force on 31st March 2013.

(2) In this Order “the 2011 Act” means the Private Rented Housing (Scotland) Act 2011.

Appointed days

2.—(1) The provisions of the 2011 Act specified in column 1 of the Schedule (the subject matter of which is specified in column 2 of the Schedule) will come into force on 1st April 2013.

(2) Section 6 (duty to include certain information in advertisements) of the 2011 Act will come into force on 1st June 2013.

Savings provisions

3.—(1) The amendment made by section 6 of the 2011 Act is of no effect in relation to an advertisement published on or after 1st June 2013 where arrangements have been made with the publisher before 1st May 2013 for that publication.

(2) The amendment made by section 8 of the 2011 Act (disqualification orders for unregistered landlords) is of no effect in relation to an offence committed before 1st April 2013.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), where an offence is found to have been committed over a period of 2 or more days, or at some time during a period of 2 or more days, it is to be taken to have been committed on the first of those days.

M J BURGESS

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

26th February 2013