(1)The Scottish Ministers may request from a local authority—
(a)the name and address of, and other contact information for, each person who is entered in the authority’s landlord register (“a registered person”),
(b)the name and address of, and other contact information for, any other person who is included in a registered person’s entry in the authority’s landlord register,
(c)the address of each house that is entered in each registered person’s entry in the authority’s landlord register, and
(d)the name, address and letting agent registration number (if any) of a letting agent of a registered person.
(2)The Scottish Ministers may exercise the power under subsection (1) for the purpose of or in connection with—
(a)enabling or assisting the exercise of any of their functions under this Chapter,
(b)assisting a local authority in the exercise of any of its functions under this Chapter.
(3)A local authority must provide the information requested by the Scottish Ministers under subsection (1) by no later than the end of the period of 28 days beginning with the day on which the local authority received the request.
(4)In subsection (1)—
“house” is to be construed in accordance with section 101 of the Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004,
“landlord register”, in relation to a local authority, means the register prepared and maintained by the local authority for the purpose of Part 8 of that Act,
“letting agent”, in relation to a registered person, means a person who is specified in the registered person’s entry in the landlord register of a local authority as acting for the registered person in relation to a lease or occupancy arrangement to which a house included in that entry is subject,
“letting agent registration number”, in relation to a letting agent, means the number allocated to the letting agent under section 36(1) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2014.