Explanatory Notes

Housing (Scotland) Act 2025

2025 asp 13

6 November 2025

Crown Application

Part 6 - Other Housing Matters

Emergency housing

Section 79 – Power to make provision about the declaration of a national housing emergency

195.This section confers a regulation-making power on the Scottish Ministers to make provision for or in connection with the declaration of a national housing emergency by the Scottish Ministers. The regulations may, in particular, include provision about any matter mentioned in subsection (2) including, for example, what is meant by a national housing emergency for the purpose of the regulations. The Scottish Ministers must, within 18 months of this section coming into force, lay before the Scottish Parliament a draft of the first regulations that they propose to make under this section.