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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="c00191" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2025/13/section/63" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-63">Section 63</CitationSubRef> - Decisions of the Scottish Housing Regulator: reviews and appeals</Title>
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<Text>This section modifies the 2010 Act to insert a new Part 5A which makes provision for and in connection with reviews and appeals against specified decisions of the Scottish Housing Regulator. It also confers a regulation-making power on the Scottish Ministers to modify this new Part and make such further provision as they consider appropriate in relation to reviews and appeals of decision by the Regulator. Regulations may not be made under the new power unless a draft of them has been laid before, and approved by, the Scottish Parliament.</Text>
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