PART 2 S TENANTS OF SOCIAL LANDLORDS

CHAPTER 1 S SCOTTISH SECURE TENANCIES

[F1 Keeping pets S

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 31A-31D and cross-heading inserted (1.4.2026 for the insertion of ss. 31B, 31C, 31D to enable the Scottish Ministers to consult or make regulations; otherwise prosp.) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 13), ss. 36(2), 86(2); S.S.I. 2026/115, reg. 2(1)(5), sch. Pt. 1

31B Power to make provision about when a consent condition for keeping a pet is reasonable S

(1) For the purpose of paragraph 8C(b) of schedule 5, the Scottish Ministers may by regulations make provision about when a condition mentioned in that paragraph (to which consent to keep a pet is subject) is reasonable.

(2) Regulations under subsection (1) may in particular specify—

(a) circumstances in which a condition, or type of condition, is or is not reasonable,

(b) factors that tend to show that a condition is or is not reasonable.

(3) The Scottish Ministers must, as soon as reasonably practicable after the day on which subsection (1) takes effect, lay before the Scottish Parliament a draft Scottish statutory instrument containing the first regulations under that subsection.

(4) If the Scottish Parliament approves the draft Scottish statutory instrument, the Scottish Ministers must make the regulations contained in the draft instrument.]