Explanatory note

These Regulations make provision for the fees that a person must pay in order to make a valid application for registration as a landlord or for details of a person’s registration to be amended.

Regulation 2 and Part 1 of the schedule set out how the prescribed fees are arrived at.

Regulation 3 provides for the annual revision of fees as at 1st April (or the first working day after that date) by reference to changes in Consumer Prices Index figures.

Regulation 4 amends the Private Landlord Registration (Advice and Assistance) (Scotland) Regulations 2005 to add a duty for a local authority to publish the fees on their website.

Regulation 5 revokes the instruments set out in Part 2 of the schedule. Regulation 6 makes saving provision in relation to applications and notices received by a local authority before 0900 hours on 11 June 2019.

A Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared for this instrument and will be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre. Copies may be obtained from the Scottish Government Directorate for Housing and Social Justice, Victoria Quay, Edinburgh EH6 6QQ.