Housing (Scotland) Act 2025

45 Student residential tenancies: power to enable tenant to bring tenancy to an end

(1) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make provision for or in connection with enabling a tenant under a student residential tenancy to bring to an end the tenancy in such circumstances, and subject to such requirements, as may be specified in the regulations.

(2) Before laying a draft of a Scottish statutory instrument containing regulations under subsection (1) before the Scottish Parliament, the Scottish Ministers—

(a) must consult such persons as appear to them to represent the interests of tenants and landlords under student residential tenancies, and

(b) may consult any other person they consider appropriate.

(3) In this section—

• “student” has the meaning given in paragraph 5 of schedule 1 of the 2016 Act,

• “student residential tenancy” means a tenancy—

  (a)

  the purpose of which is to confer on the tenant the right to occupy the let property while the tenant is a student, and

  (b)

  to which sub-paragraph (2) or (3) of paragraph 5 of schedule 1 of the 2016 Act (tenancies which cannot be private residential tenancies) applies,

• “tenancy” includes sub-tenancy,

• “tenant” includes sub-tenant.