The Scottish Tribunals (Eligibility for Appointment) Regulations 2015

Eligibility for appointment as an ordinary member of the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (housing, property or surveying experience)

3.—(1) A person is eligible for appointment as an ordinary member of the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland if paragraph (2) or (3) applies to the person.

(2) This paragraph applies to a person who has substantial relevant housing or property experience.

(3) This paragraph applies to a person who has substantial relevant surveying experience.

(4) Paragraph (2) or (3) applies to a person, whether the person has obtained the substantial relevant housing, property or surveying experience in a business, trade, charity or not-for-profit organisation, or in a profession or in academia.

(5) In this regulation—

“relevant housing or property experience” means experience in—

(a)

matters relating to landlord and tenant relationships;

(b)

housing matters (including as regards private rented sector, letting agency and factoring matters); or

(c)

land and property management matters; and

“relevant surveying experience” means experience in surveying related to housing and building conditions as a member or fellow (or former member or fellow) of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (“RICS”), but such experience does not count as relevant experience where a person is a former member or fellow of RICS, if the person has been debarred from RICS or if the person has been subject to any sanction that would have led to such debarment had the person not ceased to belong to RICS.