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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2025-commencement-no-3-regulations-2026/schedule/part-1",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2026/115",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2026",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Provisions coming into force on 1 April 2026",
  "text": "Table 1\nColumn 1 (Provisions of the Act)\nColumn 2 (Subject matter)\nColumn 3 (Purpose)\nSection 1\nPeriodic assessment of rent conditions\nSection 2\nReport to Scottish Ministers following periodic assessment\nSection 3\nInterim assessment and reports by local authorities\nSection 4\nScottish Ministers to review local authority report\nSection 5\nFurther assessment of rent conditions and report by local authority\nSection 6\nMinisterial guidance on assessments of rent conditions\nSection 7\nMinisterial guidance on reports following assessments of rent conditions\nSection 8\nScottish Ministers’ duty to report\nSection 9\nPower to designate rent control area\nSection 10\nDesignation of rent control area: consultation\nSection 11\nDuty to keep rent control area under review\nSection 12\nVariation of rent controls in existing rent control area: consultation\nSection 13\nProperties subject to modified rent control area restrictions\nSection 14\nInformation that may be sought by local authority or the Scottish Ministers\nSection 15\nInformation sharing and cooperation between local authorities and the Scottish Ministers\nSection 18\nScottish Ministers’ request for landlord information from local authorities\nSection 19\nPower to require landlords to provide information\nSection 20\nPower to modify law in connection with the expiry of rent control area\nSection 21\nScottish Ministers: information and research\nSection 22\nProspective landlords’ duty to include information about rent in advertisements\nFor the purposes of an advertisement placed on or after 1 April 2026.\nSection 23\nSetting and variation of rent\nFor all remaining purposes.\nSection 27\nReview of the operation of Part 1 of the Act\nSection 33\nReview of eviction grounds\nSection 35\nPrivate residential tenancies: keeping pets and making changes to let property\nFor 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.\nSection 36\nScottish secure tenancies etc.: keeping pets\nFor 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.\nSection 38\nApplications for registration\nFor the purposes of applications for registration under section 30(1) of the 2014 Act made on or after 1 April 2026.\nSection 39\nDuty to inform: change of circumstances\nSection 40\nRevocation of registration: where agent no longer exists\nSection 41\nRemoval from register on application: notification of agent\nSection 42\nNote on register where entry refused or removed: duration\nSection 43\nPower to obtain information and carry out inspections\nFor 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.\nSection 44(1) and (3)\nPrivate residential tenancies: ending a joint tenancy\nFor 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).\nSection 45\nStudent residential tenancies: power to enable tenant to bring tenancy to an end\nSection 52(1)\nDuties of relevant bodies in relation to homelessness\nSection 52(9)\nDuties of relevant bodies in relation to homelessness\nFor 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).\nSection 52(11)\nDuties of relevant bodies in relation to homelessness\nSection 52(12)(c) and (13)\nDuties of relevant bodies in relation to homelessness\nFor the purposes of enabling regulations to be made under section 43A of the 1987 Act (as inserted by section 52(13) of the Act).\nSection 53\nPower to modify provision about a person becoming homeless intentionally\nSection 58\nScottish social housing charter: supporting tenants affected by domestic abuse\nSection 61\nNew pitch fees: considerations\nFor 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 , on or after 1 April 2026, proposing a new pitch fee.\nSection 62\nMeaning of “protected site”\nSection 64\nRegistration: fit and proper person considerations\nSection 65\nRevocation of registration: where property factor no longer exists\nSection 66\nRemoval from register following application\nSection 67\nNote on register where refusal or removal\nFor 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.\nSection 68\nProperty factor registered numbers: inclusion in communications\nFor the purposes of communication sent or placed on or after 1 April 2026.\nSection 69\nMonitoring of compliance\nSection 70\nPower for majority of owners to dismiss and appoint manager\nFor the purposes of a vote to exercise the power in section 64(1) of the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 which takes place on or after 1 April 2026.\nSection 71\nFuel poverty strategy: consultation\nSection 72\nPeriodic reports: periods, consultation and publication etc.\nSection 73\nAdvisory panel: removal of funding cap\nSection 77\nReview of classification of properties\nSection 80\nGuidance for local authorities about a local housing emergency\nSection 81\nRural impact assessment\nSection 85\nMinor and consequential amendments\nFor the purposes of bringing into force the minor and consequential amendments in the schedule of the Act that are listed in this table.\nParagraph 1 of the schedule\nRent (Scotland) Act 1984\nParagraph 3(1), (2)(a) and (3) of the schedule\nHousing (Scotland) Act 2001\nParagraph 3(2)(b) and (c) of the schedule\nHousing (Scotland) Act 2001\nFor the purposes of inserting “, 31B(1), 31C(1)” into sections 109(4) and 109(6) of the 2001 Act.\nParagraph 4 of the schedule\nHousing (Scotland) Act 2006\nParagraph 5 of the schedule\nProperty Factors (Scotland) Act 2011\nParagraph 6 of the schedule\nHousing (Scotland) Act 2014\nParagraph 7(1) and (2)(a) of the schedule\nPrivate Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016\nParagraph 7(3) and (4)(a)(i), (b) and (c) of the schedule\nPrivate Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016\nParagraph 7(4)(d) of the schedule\nPrivate Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016\nFor the purposes of inserting paragraph (ca) into section 73(2) of the 2016 Act.\nParagraph 7(5) and (6)(a) and (b) of the schedule\nPrivate Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016\nParagraph 7(6)(c)(i) of the schedule\nPrivate Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016\nFor the purposes of inserting “, 17A(6)” into section 77(3) of the 2016 Act.\nParagraph 7(6)(c)(ii) of the schedule\nPrivate Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016\nFor all purposes except the insertion of “51A(6),” into section 77(3) of the 2016 Act.\nParagraph 7(6)(d), (7) and (8) of the schedule\nPrivate Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1983 c. 34."
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      "text": "2003 asp 9."
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