{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-1988/section-53",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-1988/section-53.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/43",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-1988",
  "path": "section/53",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "Orders and regulations.",
  "text": "(1) Any power of the Secretary of State to make orders or regulations under this Part of this Act shall be exercised by statutory instrument.\n(2) A statutory instrument containing any order or regulation under this Part, other than an order under section 35 or 41 above or regulations under section 18(4A)(b) ..., shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.\n(3) Orders or regulations under this Part may make different provision for different cases or circumstances or different areas and may contain such incidental, supplemental or transitional provisions as the Secretary of State thinks fit.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 53(2) inserted (1.10.2022) by Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Act 2022 (asp 8), ss. 47(3), 59(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 53(2) inserted (temp. until the end of 31.3.2025) (28.10.2022) by virtue of Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022 (asp 10), s. 13(1), sch. 3 para. 2(3) (with s. 11) (with savings for expiry in S.S.I. 2025/29, regs. 1(1), 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 53(2) modified (temp. until the end of 31.3.2024) (28.10.2022) by virtue of Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022 (asp 10), s. 13(1), sch. 1 para. 2(1)(2)(8) (with ss. 1(2), 6, 7, 8) (as amended (1.4.2023) by S.S.I. 2023/82, regs. 1(3), 2(2); and (27.9.2023) by S.S.I. 2023/275, regs. 1(2), 2(2)) (with savings for expiry in S.S.I. 2024/19, regs. 1(1), 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "asp/2025/13",
      "affecting_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/43/section/53",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:44.940068+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}