PART 4Rent

CHAPTER 3Rent pressure zones

Designation and effect of rent pressure zone

37Power to designate a zone

(1)

After receiving an application under section 35, the Scottish Ministers may by regulations—

(a)

designate an area as a rent pressure zone, and

(b)

prescribe in relation to that zone a number of percentage points as the value of X for the purposes of section 38(1).

(2)

In subsection (1)(b), “a number”—

(a)

includes zero and fractional parts of a whole number, but

(b)

does not include negative numbers.