Housing (Scotland) Act 2025

2025 asp 13 · Enacted 6 November 2025 · Extends to Scotland

Contents

1. Part 1: Rent
2. Chapter 1: Designation of rent control areas
3. Rent conditions: assessments and reports
4. 1Periodic assessment of rent conditions
5. 2Report to Scottish Ministers following periodic assessment
6. 3Interim assessment and reports by local authorities
7. Consideration of rent conditions reports
8. 4Scottish Ministers to review local authority report
9. 5Further assessment of rent conditions and report by local authority
10. Ministerial guidance on local authority assessments and reports
11. 6Ministerial guidance on assessments of rent conditions
12. 7Ministerial guidance on reports following assessments of rent conditions
13. Ministers’ decision on whether to designate rent control area
14. 8Scottish Ministers’ duty to report
15. 9Power to designate rent control area
16. 10Designation of rent control area: consultation
17. 11Duty to keep rent control area under review
18. 12Variation of rent controls in existing rent control area: consultation
19. Properties subject to modified restrictions
20. 13Properties subject to modified rent control area restrictions
21. Power to seek information relating to tenancies
22. 14Information that may be sought by local authority or the Scottish Ministers
23. 15Information sharing and cooperation between local authorities and the Scottish Ministers
24. 16Information holder’s failure to provide information sought Not yet in force
25. 17Information holder’s provision of false information Not yet in force
26. 18Scottish Ministers’ request for landlord information from local authorities
27. Power to require landlords to provide information
28. 19Power to require landlords to provide information
29. Expiry of rent control area: power to modify law
30. 20Power to modify law in connection with the expiry of rent control area
31. Scottish Ministers: information and research
32. 21Scottish Ministers: information and research
33. Chapter 2: Rent control areas: modifications of the 2016 Act
34. Information about rent to be included in advertisements
35. 22Prospective landlords’ duty to include information about rent in advertisements
36. Setting and variation of rent
37. 23Setting and variation of rent
38. Chapter 3: Other restrictions on rent increases Not yet in force
39. Frequency of rent increases Not yet in force
40. 24Private residential tenancies not in rent control area: frequency of rent increase Not yet in force
41. Capping of rent increases on referral or appeal Not yet in force
42. 25Private residential tenancies: capping of rent increase Not yet in force
43. 26Assured tenancies: capping of rent increase Not yet in force
44. Chapter 4: Review of the operation of Part 1 of the Act
45. 27Review of the operation of Part 1 of the Act
46. Part 2: Dealing with evictions
47. Evictions: duties to consider delay Not yet in force
48. 28Private residential tenancies: duty to consider delay to eviction Not yet in force
49. 29Scottish secure tenancies etc.: duty to consider delay to eviction Not yet in force
50. 30Assured tenancies: duty to consider delay to eviction Not yet in force
51. 31Protected tenancies and statutory tenancies: duty to consider delay to eviction Not yet in force
52. Damages for unlawful eviction Not yet in force
53. 32Unlawful eviction: notification and damages Not yet in force
54. Eviction grounds
55. 33Review of eviction grounds
56. Payments for wrongful termination
57. 34Payments for wrongful termination
58. Part 3: Keeping pets and making changes to let property
59. 35Private residential tenancies: keeping pets and making changes to let property
60. 36Scottish secure tenancies etc.: keeping pets
61. Part 4: Other matters relating to tenants
62. Unclaimed tenancy deposits Not yet in force
63. 37Use of unclaimed tenancy deposits Not yet in force
64. Registration of letting agents etc.
65. 38Applications for registration
66. 39Duty to inform: change of circumstances
67. 40Revocation of registration: where agent no longer exists
68. 41Removal from register on application: notification of agent
69. 42Note on register where entry refused or removed: duration
70. 43Power to obtain information and carry out inspections
71. Ending joint tenancies
72. 44Private residential tenancies: ending a joint tenancy
73. Ending student tenancies
74. 45Student residential tenancies: power to enable tenant to bring tenancy to an end
75. Social landlords: qualifying repairs
76. 46Social landlords: qualifying repairs
77. Tolerable standard: damp
78. 47Tolerable standard: damp
79. Succession to tenancies: qualifying periods
80. 48Private residential tenancies: succession
81. 49Scottish secure tenancies: succession
82. Delivery of notices etc.
83. 50Social landlords: delivery of notices etc.
84. Converting older tenancies Not yet in force
85. 51Assured tenancies: power to convert Not yet in force
86. Part 5: Homelessness prevention
87. Duties of relevant bodies
88. 52Duties of relevant bodies in relation to homelessness
89. Homeless persons: intentionality
90. 53Power to modify provision about a person becoming homeless intentionally
91. Assessment of housing support services Not yet in force
92. 54Assessment of housing support services Not yet in force
93. Tenants affected by domestic abuse
94. 55Local authorities etc.: consideration of domestic abuse Not yet in force
95. 56Social landlords: pre-action requirement where domestic abuse is a factor in rent arrears Not yet in force
96. 57Social landlords: policies about supporting tenants affected by domestic abuse Not yet in force
97. 58Scottish Social Housing Charter: supporting tenants affected by domestic abuse
98. Housing First Not yet in force
99. 59Annual report on Housing First Not yet in force
100. Part 6: Other housing matters
101. Mobile homes
102. 60Mobile homes: jurisdiction of the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland Not yet in force
103. 61New pitch fees: considerations
104. 62Meaning of “protected site”
105. Decisions of the Scottish Housing Regulator: reviews and appeals Not yet in force
106. 63Decisions of the Scottish Housing Regulator: reviews and appeals Not yet in force
107. Property factors
108. 64Registration: fit and proper person considerations
109. 65Revocation of registration: where property factor no longer exists
110. 66Removal from register following application
111. 67Note on register where refusal or removal
112. 68Property factor registered numbers: inclusion in communications
113. 69Monitoring of compliance
114. Managers of related properties
115. 70Power for majority of owners to dismiss and appoint manager
116. Fuel poverty
117. 71Fuel poverty strategy: consultation
118. 72Periodic reports: periods, consultation and publication etc.
119. 73Advisory panel: removal of funding cap
120. New homes ombudsman Not yet in force
121. 74Disclosure of information to new homes ombudsman Not yet in force
122. Council tax
123. 75Variation of council tax for unoccupied dwellings
124. 76Review of council tax arrears: joint and several liability
125. 77Review of classification of properties
126. Housing revenue accounts
127. 78Transfer of funds into housing revenue account
128. Housing emergency
129. 79Power to make provision about the declaration of a national housing emergency Not yet in force
130. 80Guidance for local authorities about a local housing emergency
131. Part 7: Impact Assessment
132. 81Rural impact assessment
133. Part 8: Final provisions
134. 82Regulations
135. 83Ancillary provision
136. 84Interpretation
137. 85Minor and consequential modifications
138. 86Commencement
139. 87Short title
140. Schedule: Minor and consequential modifications of enactments
141. 1Rent (Scotland) Act 1984
142. 2Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 Not yet in force
143. 3Housing (Scotland) Act 2001
144. 4Housing (Scotland) Act 2006
145. 5Property Factors (Scotland) Act 2011
146. 6Housing (Scotland) Act 2014
147. 7Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016