PART 4Rent
CHAPTER 3Rent pressure zones
Designation and effect of rent pressure zone
39Limits on power to designate a zone
(1)
An area may not be designated as a rent pressure zone unless it is an area which the Scottish Ministers have been asked to designate as a rent pressure zone in an application under section 35.
(2)
An area may not be designated as a rent pressure zone more than once on the basis of the same application under section 35.
(3)
Regulations designating a rent pressure zone cease to have effect 5 years after they come into force, unless—
(a)
they provide, or another enactment provides, that they cease to have effect sooner, or
(b)
they are revoked.