The Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2026

Part 1 Provisions coming into force on 1 April 2026

Table 1

Column 1 (Provisions of the Act)	Column 2 (Subject matter)	Column 3 (Purpose)
Section 1	Periodic assessment of rent conditions
Section 2	Report to Scottish Ministers following periodic assessment
Section 3	Interim assessment and reports by local authorities
Section 4	Scottish Ministers to review local authority report
Section 5	Further assessment of rent conditions and report by local authority
Section 6	Ministerial guidance on assessments of rent conditions
Section 7	Ministerial guidance on reports following assessments of rent conditions
Section 8	Scottish Ministers’ duty to report
Section 9	Power to designate rent control area
Section 10	Designation of rent control area: consultation
Section 11	Duty to keep rent control area under review
Section 12	Variation of rent controls in existing rent control area: consultation
Section 13	Properties subject to modified rent control area restrictions
Section 14	Information that may be sought by local authority or the Scottish Ministers
Section 15	Information sharing and cooperation between local authorities and the Scottish Ministers
Section 18	Scottish Ministers’ request for landlord information from local authorities
Section 19	Power to require landlords to provide information
Section 20	Power to modify law in connection with the expiry of rent control area
Section 21	Scottish Ministers: information and research
Section 22	Prospective landlords’ duty to include information about rent in advertisements	For the purposes of an advertisement placed on or after 1 April 2026.
Section 23	Setting and variation of rent	For all remaining purposes.
Section 27	Review of the operation of Part 1 of the Act
Section 33	Review of eviction grounds
Section 35	Private residential tenancies: keeping pets and making changes to let property	For the purposes of inserting sections 64B(1) and (3), 64C(3), 64E, 64F, 64G, 64I(1) and (3), 64J(3), 64L, 64M, 64N, and 64O into the 2016 Act to enable the Scottish Ministers to consult or, as the case may be, make regulations under those sections.
Section 36	Scottish secure tenancies etc.: keeping pets	For the purposes of inserting sections 31B, 31C and 31D, and paragraph 8B of schedule 5, into the 2001 Act to enable the Scottish Ministers to consult or, as the case may be, make regulations under those sections or that paragraph.
Section 38	Applications for registration	For the purposes of applications for registration under section 30(1) of the 2014 Act made on or after 1 April 2026.
Section 39	Duty to inform: change of circumstances
Section 40	Revocation of registration: where agent no longer exists
Section 41	Removal from register on application: notification of agent
Section 42	Note on register where entry refused or removed: duration
Section 43	Power to obtain information and carry out inspections	For the purposes of a notice served by the Scottish Ministers under section 52(1) of the 2014 Act on or after 1 April 2026 or, as the case may be, an inspection carried out by an authorised person under section 53(1) of the 2014 Act on or after 1 April 2026.
Section 44(1) and (3)	Private residential tenancies: ending a joint tenancy	For the purposes of enabling regulations to be made under section 48A(1)(b)(ii), (1)(c)(ii)(B), (3)(c), (5), (6) and (7) of the 2016 Act (as inserted by section 44(3) of the Act).
Section 45	Student residential tenancies: power to enable tenant to bring tenancy to an end
Section 52(1)	Duties of relevant bodies in relation to homelessness
Section 52(9)	Duties of relevant bodies in relation to homelessness	For the purposes of enabling regulations to be made under section 36C(2)(c) of the 1987 Act (as inserted by section 52(9) of the Act).
Section 52(11)	Duties of relevant bodies in relation to homelessness
Section 52(12)(c) and (13)	Duties of relevant bodies in relation to homelessness	For the purposes of enabling regulations to be made under section 43A of the 1987 Act (as inserted by section 52(13) of the Act).
Section 53	Power to modify provision about a person becoming homeless intentionally
Section 58	Scottish social housing charter: supporting tenants effected by domestic abuse
Section 61	New pitch fees: considerations	For the purposes of a notice served by an owner on an occupier, under paragraph 17(1) or 19(1) of Chapter 2 of Part 1 of schedule 1 of the Mobile Homes Act 1983 (1), on or after 1 April 2026, proposing a new pitch fee.
Section 62	Meaning of “protected site”
Section 64	Registration: fit and proper person considerations
Section 65	Revocation of registration: where property factor no longer exists
Section 66	Removal from register following application
Section 67	Note on register where refusal or removal	For the purposes of a decision to refuse to enter a person in the register under section 4(5) of the 2011 Act, or a decision to remove a person from the register under section 8(1) of the 2011 Act, where that decision was taken on or after 1 April 2026.
Section 68	Property factor registered numbers: inclusion in communications	For the purposes of communication sent or placed on or after 1 April 2026.
Section 69	Monitoring of compliance
Section 70	Power for majority of owners to dismiss and appoint manager	For the purposes of a vote to exercise the power in section 64(1) of the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (2) which takes place on or after 1 April 2026.
Section 71	Fuel poverty strategy: consultation
Section 72	Periodic reports: periods, consultation and publication etc.
Section 73	Advisory panel: removal of funding cap
Section 77	Review of classification of properties
Section 80	Guidance for local authorities about a local housing emergency
Section 81	Rural impact assessment
Section 85	Minor and consequential amendments	For the purposes of bringing into force the minor and consequential amendments in the schedule of the Act that are listed in this table.
Paragraph 1 of the schedule	Rent (Scotland) Act 1984
Paragraph 3(1), (2)(a) and (3) of the schedule	Housing (Scotland) Act 2001
Paragraph 3(2)(b) and (c) of the schedule	Housing (Scotland) Act 2001	For the purposes of inserting “, 31B(1), 31C(1)” into sections 109(4) and 109(6) of the 2001 Act.
Paragraph 4 of the schedule	Housing (Scotland) Act 2006
Paragraph 5 of the schedule	Property Factors (Scotland) Act 2011
Paragraph 6 of the schedule	Housing (Scotland) Act 2014
Paragraph 7(1) and (2)(a) of the schedule	Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016
Paragraph 7(3) and (4)(a)(i), (b) and (c) of the schedule	Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016
Paragraph 7(4)(d) of the schedule	Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016	For the purposes of inserting paragraph (ca) into section 73(2) of the 2016 Act.
Paragraph 7(5) and (6)(a) and (b) of the schedule	Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016
Paragraph 7(6)(c)(i) of the schedule	Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016	For the purposes of inserting “, 17A(6)” into section 77(3) of the 2016 Act.
Paragraph 7(6)(c)(ii) of the schedule	Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016	For all purposes except the insertion of “51A(6),” into section 77(3) of the 2016 Act.
Paragraph 7(6)(d), (7) and (8) of the schedule	Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016

(1)

1983 c. 34.

(2)

2003 asp 9.