Housing (Scotland) Act 2025

66 Removal from register following application

(1) The Property Factors (Scotland) Act 2011 is modified as follows.

(2) After section 8 insert—

“8A Removal from register following application

(1) A registered property factor may apply to the Scottish Ministers to be removed from the register.

(2) The application must be accompanied by a fee of such amount (if any) as the Scottish Ministers may determine.

(3) The Scottish Ministers must remove a registered property factor from the register if, having considered an application under this section, they are satisfied that—

(a) the registered property factor is no longer carrying out the activities of a property factor, and

(b) it is otherwise appropriate to remove that property factor from the register.

(4) The Scottish Ministers must (if possible), as soon as practicable after making their decision under this section, notify the property factor who made the application of—

(a) their decision, and

(b) either—

(i) in the case of a decision to remove the property factor from the register, the date of removal from the register,

(ii) in the case of a decision not to remove the property factor from the register, their reasons for that decision.”.

(3) In section 9 (effect of refusal to enter in register or removal from register)—

(a) in subsection (1)—

(i) the word “or” immediately following paragraph (b) is repealed,

(ii) after paragraph (c) insert “, or

(d) remove a property factor from the register under section 8A(3).”,

(b) in subsection (3)(a), for “(1)(a), (b), or as the case may be, (c)” substitute “(1)”.