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Housing (Scotland) Act 2025

Part 7 – Impact Assessment

Section 81 – Rural impact assessment

197.This section provides that the Scottish Ministers must, no later than 12 months after Royal Assent, conduct an impact assessment of the provisions of the 2025 Act on rural and island communities. On completing the impact assessment, the Scottish Ministers must lay a report on the impact assessment before the Scottish Parliament and publish it. The report must include a statement of the action, if any, the Scottish Ministers intend to take as a result of carrying out the assessment.

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