<EN xmlns="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:base="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2025/13" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation http://www.legislation.gov.uk/schema/en.xsd" SchemaVersion="1.0" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/13/notes" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2025/13/notes"><ukm:Metadata xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:ukm="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/metadata">
				<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/13/section/82/notes</dc:identifier><dc:title>Explanatory Notes to Housing (Scotland) Act 2025</dc:title><dc:creator>Scottish Government</dc:creator><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:publisher>King's Printer for Scotland</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2026-04-16</dc:modified>
				<atom:link xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/xml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/13/section/82/notes/data.xml"/>
				
				
				<atom:link xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/13/section/82/notes/data.xht" title="HTML snippet"/><atom:link xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="alternate" type="application/akn+xhtml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/13/section/82/notes/data.html" title="HTML5"/><atom:link xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/13/section/82/notes/data.htm" title="Website (XHTML) Default View"/><atom:link xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="alternate" type="text/csv" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/13/section/82/notes/data.csv" title="CSV"/><atom:link xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="alternate" type="application/pdf" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/13/section/82/notes/data.pdf" title="PDF"/>
				<atom:link xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="alternate" type="application/pdf" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/13/pdfs/aspen_20250013_en.pdf" title="Explanatory Note"/>
				
				<atom:link xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/act/introduction" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/13/introduction" title="Act Introduction"/><atom:link xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/act/toc" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/13/contents" title="Act Table of Contents"/><atom:link xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/resources" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/13/resources" title="More Resources"/>
				
				<atom:link xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/tableOfContents" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/13/notes/contents" title="Notes Table of Contents"/>
				<ukm:ENmetadata><ukm:DocumentClassification>
<ukm:DocumentCategory Value="primary"/>
<ukm:DocumentMainType Value="ScottishAct"/>
<ukm:DocumentStatus Value="final"/>
</ukm:DocumentClassification><ukm:Year Value="2025"/><ukm:Number Value="13"/><ukm:ISBN Value="9780105921080"/></ukm:ENmetadata>
				<ukm:Alternatives><ukm:Alternative URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/13/pdfs/aspen_20250013_en.pdf" Date="2026-04-16" Title="Explanatory Note" Size="1102111"/></ukm:Alternatives>
			</ukm:Metadata><ExplanatoryNotes><ENprelims>
<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>
</Title>
<Number>13</Number>
<DateOfEnactment>
<DateText>6 November 2025</DateText>
</DateOfEnactment>
</ENprelims><Body><Division id="d00004" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/13/notes/division/4" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2025/13/notes/division/4"><Title>Crown Application</Title><CommentaryPart id="n00132" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/13/notes/division/4/8" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2025/13/notes/division/4/8"><Title><CitationSubRef id="c00231" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2025/13/part/8" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="part-8">Part 8</CitationSubRef> - Final Provisions</Title><CommentaryP1 id="n00133" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/13/notes/division/4/8/1" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2025/13/notes/division/4/8/1">
<Title><CitationSubRef id="c00233" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2025/13/section/82" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-82">Section 82</CitationSubRef> - Regulations</Title>
<NumberedPara id="paragraph-198" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/13/notes/paragraph/198" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2025/13/notes/paragraph/198"><Pnumber>198</Pnumber><Para>
<Text>This section makes further provision about the regulation-making powers given to the Scottish Ministers under the 2025 Act. It allows any such regulations to make different provision for different purposes and areas, and specifies the parliamentary procedure that applies in each case.</Text>
</Para></NumberedPara>
<NumberedPara id="paragraph-199" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/13/notes/paragraph/199" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2025/13/notes/paragraph/199"><Pnumber>199</Pnumber><Para>
<Text>This section does not apply to the regulation-making power in section 86(2) because this power is subject instead to a requirement to lay the instrument containing the regulations before the Scottish Parliament as soon as reasonably practicable after the legislation is made, and in any event before it is due to come into force (see section 30(2) of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010). In addition, separate provision is made in section 86(4) to allow regulations under this power to make different provision for different purposes.</Text>
</Para></NumberedPara>
</CommentaryP1></CommentaryPart></Division></Body></ExplanatoryNotes></EN>