34Performance improvement targets
(1)The Regulator may set performance improvement targets specifying the level or quality of housing services or the standard of housing activities which social landlords must aim to provide by a specified time.
(2)Different performance improvement targets, or different times, may be set for different social landlords or for different areas or cases.
(3)Before issuing, revising or withdrawing a performance improvement target, the Regulator must consult—
(a)Ministers,
(b)tenants of social landlords or their representatives,
(c)homeless persons or bodies representing the interests of homeless persons,
(d)recipients of housing services provided by social landlords or their representatives,
(e)social landlords or their representatives,
(f)secured creditors of registered social landlords or their representatives, and
(g)the Accounts Commission for Scotland.
This subsection does not apply where—
(i)the performance improvement target affects only one social landlord, or
(ii)the Regulator considers that there is an urgent need to set the performance improvement target.
(4)The Regulator must make arrangements for bringing a performance improvement target (and any revision or withdrawal) to the attention of affected social landlords.