Housing (Scotland) Act 2025

10 Designation of rent control area: consultation

(1) Before laying a draft of a Scottish statutory instrument containing regulations under section 9(1) designating an area as a rent control area (“the proposed rent control area”), the Scottish Ministers must consult—

(a) the local authority within whose area the proposed rent control area is situated,

(b) persons who appear to them to represent the interests of tenants and landlords under relevant tenancies of properties in the proposed rent control area.

(2) The Scottish Ministers must—

(a) consult the persons referred to in subsection (1) in relation to the specification of the area forming the proposed rent control area,

(b) allow a period of not less than 8 weeks for any representations to be made in response to the consultation.

(3) When laying a draft of a Scottish statutory instrument containing regulations mentioned in subsection (1) before the Scottish Parliament, the Scottish Ministers must also lay before the Parliament a report—

(a) setting out the reasons why they consider that the regulations should be made including the reasons for the specification of the area to be designated as a rent control area,

(b) describing—

(i) the consultation carried out under subsection (1),

(ii) any representations received in response to the consultation, and

(iii) the changes (if any) from what was originally proposed as a result of those representations.