2025 No. 29
Housing

The Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Saving Provision) (Scotland) Regulations 2025

Made
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
Coming into force
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 12(1) of the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 20221 and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation, commencement and interpretation1.

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Saving Provision) (Scotland) Regulations 2025 and come into force on 31 March 2025.

(2)

In these Regulations—

“the 1988 Act” means the Housing (Scotland) Act 19882,
“the 2016 Act” means the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 20163.

Saving provision2.

Despite the expiry of section 10 and schedule 3 of the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022 in accordance with section 11 of that Act4 and the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022 (Expiry of Section 10: Extension) Regulations 20245, the Rent Adjudication (Temporary Modifications) (Scotland) Regulations 20246 continue in effect in relation to—

(a)

a referral to a rent officer made prior to 1 April 2025, in accordance with section 24(1) of the 2016 Act, in relation to a rent-increase notice given in accordance with section 22(1) of that Act,

(b)

an appeal to the First-tier Tribunal made in accordance with section 28(1) of the 2016 Act against an order of a rent officer made in relation to a referral described in paragraph (a),

(c)

a referral to the First-tier Tribunal made prior to 1 April 2025, in accordance with section 24(3)(a) of the 1988 Act7, in relation to a notice proposing a new rent served in accordance with section 24(1) of the 1988 Act8,

(d)

an appeal to the Upper Tribunal made in accordance with section 46 of the Tribunals (Scotland) Act 20149 against an order of the First-tier Tribunal made in relation to a referral described in paragraph (c).
PAUL MCLENNAN
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Section 10, and schedule 3, of the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022 (“the 2022 Act”) will expire at the end of 31 March 2025 by virtue of section 11 of the 2022 Act read alongside the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022 (Expiry of Section 10: Extension) Regulations 2024. The Rent Adjudication (Temporary Modifications) (Scotland) Regulations 2024 (“the 2024 Regulations”) were made under powers created by schedule 3 of the 2022 Act and will therefore cease to have effect at the end of 31 March 2025.

The 2024 Regulations temporarily modify how rent in relation to a private residential tenancy is determined on referral by a tenant to a rent officer (or on subsequent appeal to the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland) under the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) 2016 Act. They also change how rent in relation to statutory assured tenancies is determined under section 25 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 on referral to the First-tier Tribunal (or on subsequent appeal to the Upper Tribunal).

These Regulations ensure that the 2024 Regulations continue to have effect in relation to referrals made to the rent officer or First-tier Tribunal before 1 April 2025 and any subsequent appeals in connection with such referrals.