http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/19/section/39/2022-10-28Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016An Act of the Scottish Parliament to make provision about private rented housing; in particular to establish a new type of tenancy to be known as a private residential tenancy.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2026-05-05Expert Participation2022-10-28 PART 4RentCHAPTER 3Rent pressure zones<Emphasis>Designation and effect of rent pressure zone</Emphasis>Limits on power to designate a zone391An 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 35.2An area may not be designated as a rent pressure zone more than once on the basis of the same application under section 35.3Regulations designating a rent pressure zone cease to have effect 5 years after they come into force, unless—athey provide, or another enactment provides, that they cease to have effect sooner, orbthey are revoked.Ss. 35-43 modified (temp. until the end of 31.3.2024) (28.10.2022) by Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022 (asp 10), s. 13(1), sch. 1 para. 1(1)(19) (with ss. 1(2), 6, 7, 8) (as amended: (1.4.2023) by S.S.I. 2023/82, regs. 1(3), 2(2); and (27.9.2023) by S.S.I. 2023/275, regs. 1(2), 2(2)) (with savings for expiry in S.S.I. 2024/19, regs. 1(1), 2)S. 39 in force at 1.12.2017 by S.S.I. 2017/346, reg. 2, sch.