Explanatory Notes

Housing (Scotland) Act 2025

2025 asp 13

6 November 2025

Crown Application

Part 1 – Rent

Chapter 1 – Designation of rent control areas
Power to seek information relating to tenancies
Section 18 - Scottish Ministers’ request for landlord information from local authorities

50.This section allows the Scottish Ministers to request from a local authority certain information that is entered in the authority’s landlord register for the purpose of exercising their functions under Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the 2025 Act or to assist a local authority in the exercise of its functions under the Chapter. A local authority must provide the information within 28 days.