Housing (Scotland) Bill [AS PASSED] CONTENTS Section RT 1 P A R ENT C HAPTER 1 D ESIGNATION OF RENT CONTROL AREAS Rent conditions: assessments and reports assessment of rent conditions 1 Periodic 2 Report to Scottish Ministers following periodic assessment 3 Interim assessment and reports by local authorities Consideration of rent conditions reports 4 Scottish Ministers to review local authority report 5 Further assessment of rent conditions and report by local authority Ministerial guidance on local authority assessments and reports 6 Ministerial guidance on assessments of rent conditions 7 Ministerial guidance on reports following assessments of rent conditions Ministers’ decision on whether to designate rent control area 8 Scottish Ministers’ duty to report 9 Power to designate rent control area 10 Designation of rent control area: consultation to keep rent control area under review 11 Duty 12 Variation of rent controls in existing rent control area: consultation Properties exempt from or subject to modified restrictions subject to modified rent control area restrictions 14 Properties Power to seek information from landlords and tenants that may be sought by local authority 15 Information 15A Information sharing and cooperation between local authorities and the Scottish Ministers 16A Information holder’s failure to provide information sought 17A Information holder’s provision of false information 17B Scottish Ministers’ request for landlord information from local authorities SP Bill 45B Session 6 (2025) ii Housing (Scotland) Bill Power to require landlords to provide information 17C Power to require landlords to provide information Expiry of rent control area: power to modify law 18 Power to modify law in connection with the expiry of rent control area Scottish Ministers: information and research 18A Scottish Ministers: information and research C HAPTER 2 R ENT CONTROL AREAS : MODIFICATIONS OF THE 2016 A CT Information about rent to be included in advertisements 20 Prospective landlords’ duty to include information about rent in advertisements Setting and variation of rent 19 Setting and variation of rent HAPTER 3 C O THER RESTRICTIONS ON RENT INCREASES Frequency of rent increases 21 Private residential tenancies not in rent control area: frequency of rent increase Capping of rent increases on referral or appeal 22 Private residential tenancies: capping of rent increase 23 Assured tenancies: capping of rent increase C HAPTER 4 R EVIEW OF THE OPERATION OF P ART 1 OF THE A CT 23A Review of the operation of Part 1 of the Act RT 2 P A D EALING WITH EVICTIONS Evictions: duties to consider delay 24 Private residential tenancies: duty to consider delay to eviction 25 Scottish secure tenancies etc.: duty to consider delay to eviction 26 Assured tenancies: duty to consider delay to eviction tenancies and statutory tenancies: duty to consider delay to eviction 27 Protected Damages for unlawful eviction 28 Unlawful eviction: notification and damages Housing (Scotland) Bill iii Eviction grounds 28ZA Review of eviction grounds Payments for wrongful termination 28A Payments for wrongful termination P ART 3 K EEPING PETS AND MAKING CHANGES TO LET PROPERTY 29 Private residential tenancies: keeping pets and making changes to let property 30 Scottish secure tenancies etc.: keeping pets P ART 4 O THER MATTERS RELATING TO TENANTS Unclaimed tenancy deposits 31 Use of unclaimed tenancy deposits Registration of letting agents etc. 32 Applications for registration 33 Duty to inform: change of circumstances 34 Revocation of registration: where agent no longer exists 35 Removal from register on application: notification of agent 36 Note on register where entry refused or removed: duration 37 Power to obtain information and carry out inspections Ending joint tenancies 38 Private residential tenancies: ending a joint tenancy Ending student tenancies 38ZA Student residential tenancies: power to enable tenant to bring tenancy to an end Social landlords: qualifying repairs 38A Social landlords: qualifying repairs Tolerable standard: damp and mould 38AA Tolerable standard: damp and mould to tenancies: qualifying periods Succession 38B Private residential tenancies: succession 38C Scottish secure tenancies: succession of notices etc.