Explanatory Notes

Housing (Scotland) Act 2025

2025 asp 13

6 November 2025

Crown Application

Part 1 – Rent

Chapter 1 – Designation of rent control areas
Ministers’ decision on whether to designate rent control area
Section 11 - Duty to keep rent control area under review

33.This section requires the Scottish Ministers to keep under review the designation and size of each rent control area designated by existing regulations under section 9(1). Subsection (2) requires Ministers to lay draft regulations to revoke or vary the existing regulations if they consider that it is no longer necessary or proportionate to designate all or part of a rent control area.