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<Number>2023 No. 8</Number>
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<Title>Housing</Title>
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<Title>The Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022 (Early Expiry and Suspension of Provisions) Regulations 2023</Title>
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<Text>Made</Text>
<DateText>17th January 2023</DateText>
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<Text>Laid before the Scottish Parliament</Text>
<DateText>19th January 2023</DateText>
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<Text>Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(2) and (3)</Text>
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<Text>The Scottish Minsters make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 6(1)(a) and 8(1) of the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022<FootnoteRef Ref="f00001"/> and all other powers enabling them to do so.</Text>
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<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
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<Text>These Regulations may be cited as the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022 (Early Expiry and Suspension of Provisions) Regulations 2023.</Text>
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<Text>Subject to paragraph (3), these Regulations come into force on 26 February 2023.</Text>
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<Text>Regulation 3 comes into force on 30<Superior/>March 2023.</Text>
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<Title>Expiry of provision of the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022</Title>
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<Text>26 February 2023 is specified as the day on which paragraph 3 of schedule 1 (rent cap for Scottish secure tenancies and short Scottish secure tenancies) of the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022 expires.</Text>
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<Title>Suspension of provision of the Cost of Living (Tenant Protections) (Scotland) Act 2022</Title>
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<Text>The operation of paragraph 4 of schedule 1 (rent cap for student residential tenancies) of the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022 is suspended.</Text>
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<PersonName>PATRICK HARVIE</PersonName>
<JobTitle>Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers</JobTitle>
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<Text>These Regulations expire and suspend certain provisions of schedule 1 of the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022 (“<Term>the 2022 Act</Term>”).</Text>
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<Text>Paragraph 3 of schedule 1 of the 2022 Act modifies the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 in order to impose a variable 0% rent cap in relation to Scottish secure tenancies and short Scottish secure tenancies. Regulation 2 of these Regulations expires paragraph 3 on 26 February 2023.</Text>
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<Text>Paragraph 4 of schedule 1 of the 2022 Act provides a variable 0% rent cap in relation to student residential tenancies. Regulation 3 of these Regulations suspends operation of paragraph 4, that suspension coming into force on 30 March 2023.</Text>
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<Text>An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument.</Text>
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<Text><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2022/10" id="c00001" Year="2022" Number="10" Class="ScottishAct">2022 asp 10</Citation>.</Text>
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