{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-housing-tenancies-scotland-act-2016/section-77",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-housing-tenancies-scotland-act-2016/section-77.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2016/19",
  "legislation_title": "Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-housing-tenancies-scotland-act-2016",
  "path": "section/77",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "77",
  "heading": "Regulation-making powers",
  "text": "(1) A power to make regulations conferred by this Act includes the power to make different provision for different purposes or areas.\n(2) Regulations under section 17(3), 22(2)(b) , 43L(3)(b), 48A(3)(c) , 61(3)(b) , 62(1)(d), 64B(1)(b) or (3)(d), 64C(3), 64I(1)(b) or (3)(d) or 64J(3) prescribing requirements which must be fulfilled by a notice , pre-notice or request (as the case may be) may in particular require that a notice—\n(a) contain information specified in the regulations,\n(b) be in a form specified in the regulations,\n(c) be given in a manner specified in the regulations.\n(3) Regulations under sections 6, 7, 11, 12 , 17A(6), 17D(1), 19(1)(a), ... 37 , 41, 43B(4), 43E(1) or (2), 43I(1)(b)(i), 43W(1), 48A(5) and (6), 51A(6), 59(5), 64E(1), 64F(1), 64L(1), 64M(1), 64N(1) and paragraph 12(4)(b) of schedule 3 are subject to the affirmative procedure.\n(4) Regulations under sections 6A(3)(b), 6B(3)(b), 17, 22, 24, 34, 43 , 43L(3)(b), 43N(3), 43Q(2)(b), 43S(4)(a), 48A(1)(b)(ii) and (c)(ii)(B), 48A(3)(c) , 61 , 62, 64B(1)(b), 64B(3)(d), 64C(3), 64I(1)(b) and (3)(d) and 64J(3) are subject to the negative procedure.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 77(1) inserted (1.4.2026) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 13), s. 86(2), sch. para. 7(6)(a); S.S.I. 2026/115, reg. 2(1)(5), sch. Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 77(2) inserted (1.4.2026) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 13), s. 86(2), sch. para. 7(6)(b)(i); S.S.I. 2026/115, reg. 2(1)(5), sch. Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 77(2) substituted (1.4.2026) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 13), s. 86(2), sch. para. 7(6)(b)(ii); S.S.I. 2026/115, reg. 2(1)(5), sch. Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 77(2) inserted (1.4.2026) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 13), s. 86(2), sch. para. 7(6)(b)(iii); S.S.I. 2026/115, reg. 2(1)(5), sch. Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 77(3) inserted (7.1.2026 for specified purposes, 1.4.2026 for specified purposes) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 13), s. 86(2), sch. para. 7(6)(c)(i); S.S.I. 2025/355, reg. 3(c); S.S.I. 2026/115, reg. 2(1)(5), sch. Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in s. 77(3) 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. 1(3) (with s. 11) (as amended (31.3.2023) by S.S.I. 2023/116, regs. 1(2), 2(3)) (with savings for expiry in S.S.I. 2025/29, regs. 1(1), 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 77(3) substituted (1.4.2026 for specified purposes) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 13), s. 86(2), sch. para. 7(6)(c)(ii); S.S.I. 2026/115, reg. 2(1)(5), sch. Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 77(3) inserted (1.10.2022) by Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Act 2022 (asp 8), ss. 46(3), 59(1) (with s. 48(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 77(4) inserted (1.5.2026) by Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (c. 26), ss. 50(4), 145(4) (with s. 138); S.S.I. 2026/125, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 77(4) inserted (1.4.2026) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 13), s. 86(2), sch. para. 7(6)(d)(i); S.S.I. 2026/115, reg. 2(1)(5), sch. Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in s. 77(4) substituted (1.4.2026) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 13), s. 86(2), sch. para. 7(6)(d)(ii); S.S.I. 2026/115, reg. 2(1)(5), sch. Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 77(3) modified (temp. until the end of 31.3.2024) (28.10.2022) by Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022 (asp 10), s. 13(1), sch. 1 para. 1(1)(20) (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/asp/2016/19/section/77",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:28.355400+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."
}