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<Title><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2025/13" id="c00001" Class="ScottishAct" Year="2025" Number="0013">Housing (Scotland) Act 2025</Citation>
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<Number>13</Number>
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<DateText>6 November 2025</DateText>
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<Title><CitationSubRef id="c00043" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2025/13/section/11" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-11">Section 11</CitationSubRef> - Duty to keep rent control area under review</Title>
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<Text>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.</Text>
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