Explanatory note

These Regulations make provision for the expenditure which a local authority may incur when a management control order made by a sheriff in terms of section 74 of the Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004 is in place over a house. It also provides that a local authority may recover expenditure from a landlord any time when expenditure exceeds income.

Regulation 2 introduces the Schedule to these regulations and requires that any expenditure permitted in terms of the schedule must be considered necessary and reasonable.

Regulation 3 specifies the circumstances when the local authority can recover expenditure.

A Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared for these Regulations.