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Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 in Scotland

2024 c. 22 · Enacted 24 May 2024 · Extends to United Kingdom

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s. 37applied by 1993 c. 28, s. 32(1) (as substituted)Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 s. 36(2)
s. 37applied by 1967 c. 88, s. 9(A1) (as inserted)Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 s. 35(2)(a)
s. 37applied by 1967 c. 88, s. 14A (as inserted)Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 s. 35(3)
s. 37applied by 1993 c. 28, s. 56(1)(b) (as substituted)Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 s. 36(3)(a)
Sch. 13 para. 4omittedRenters’ Rights Act 2025 Sch. 3 para. 13
Sch. 13 para. 2omittedRenters’ Rights Act 2025 Sch. 3 para. 13
Sch. 13 para. 7omittedRenters’ Rights Act 2025 Sch. 3 para. 13
Sch. 13 para. 3omittedRenters’ Rights Act 2025 Sch. 3 para. 13
Sch. 13 para. 6omittedRenters’ Rights Act 2025 Sch. 3 para. 13
s. 62(2)(5)coming into forceLeasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 4) 2026 reg. 3(e)
s. 63coming into forceLeasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 4) 2026 reg. 3(f)
s. 69coming into forceLeasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 4) 2026 reg. 3(g)
s. 70coming into forceLeasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 4) 2026 reg. 3(h)
s. 71coming into forceLeasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 4) 2026 reg. 3(i)
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s. 55coming into forceLeasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 4) 2026 reg. 4(a)
s. 56coming into forceLeasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 4) 2026 reg. 4(b)
s. 58coming into forceLeasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 4) 2026 reg. 4(c)
s. 59coming into forceLeasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 4) 2026 reg. 4(d)
s. 60(1)(2)coming into forceLeasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 4) 2026 reg. 4(e)
s. 60(3)(4)coming into forceLeasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 4) 2026 reg. 4(e)
s. 61coming into forceLeasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 4) 2026 reg. 4(f)
s. 69coming into forceLeasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 4) 2026 reg. 4(g)
s. 70coming into forceLeasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 4) 2026 reg. 4(h)
s. 71coming into forceLeasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 4) 2026 reg. 4(i)
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s. 55coming into forceLeasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 4) 2026 reg. 5(a)
s. 56coming into forceLeasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 4) 2026 reg. 5(b)
s. 58coming into forceLeasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 4) 2026 reg. 5(c)
s. 69coming into forceLeasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 4) 2026 reg. 5(d)
s. 70coming into forceLeasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 4) 2026 reg. 5(e)
s. 71coming into forceLeasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 4) 2026 reg. 5(f)
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s. 53coming into forceLeasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 4) 2026 reg. 3(a)
s. 54coming into forceLeasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 4) 2026 reg. 3(b)
s. 57(1)(2)coming into forceLeasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 4) 2026 reg. 3(c)
s. 57(3)coming into forceLeasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 4) 2026 reg. 3(c)
s. 58(1)coming into forceLeasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 4) 2026 reg. 3(d)(i)
s. 58(2)coming into forceLeasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 4) 2026 reg. 3(d)(ii)
s. 58(3)coming into forceLeasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 4) 2026 reg. 3(d)(iii)
s. 62(1)(3)(4)(6)(7)coming into forceLeasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 4) 2026 reg. 3(e)

An Act to prohibit the grant or assignment of certain new long residential leases of houses, to amend the rights of tenants under long residential leases to acquire the freeholds of their houses, to extend the leases of their houses or flats, and to collectively enfranchise or manage the buildings containing their flats, to give such tenants the right to reduce the rent payable under their leases to a peppercorn, to regulate the relationship between residential landlords and tenants, to regulate residential estate management, to regulate rentcharges and to amend the Building Safety Act 2022 in connection with the remediation of building defects and the insolvency of persons who have repairing obligations relating to certain kinds of buildings.

[24th May 2024]

Be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Contents

  1. Part 1: Leasehold houses Not yet in force
  2. Ban on grant or assignment of certain long residential leases of houses Not yet in force
  3. Enforcement Not yet in force
  4. 23Further powers and duties of enforcement authorities Not yet in force

23Further powers and duties of enforcement authoritiesI1

(1)

An enforcement authority must notify the lead enforcement authority if the enforcement authority believes that a breach of a leasehold house restriction has occurred in its area.

(2)

An enforcement authority must report to the lead enforcement authority, whenever the lead enforcement authority requires and in such form and with such particulars as it requires, on that enforcement authority’s enforcement of the leasehold house restrictions.

(3)

An enforcement authority must have regard to the guidance issued under section 21(3).

(4)

For the investigatory powers available to an enforcement authority for the purposes of enforcing a leasehold house restriction, see Schedule 5 to the Consumer Rights Act 2015 (investigatory powers of enforcers etc).

(5)

In paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 to the Consumer Rights Act 2015 (duties and powers to which Schedule 5 applies), at the appropriate places insert—

(a)

“section 17 of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024;”;

(b)

“section 22 of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024”.

(6)

See also paragraph 44 of Schedule 5 to the Consumer Rights Act 2015 (exercise of functions outside enforcer’s area).