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Section 9 Effect of refusal to enter in register or removal from registerI1

(1)

Subsection (2) applies where the Scottish Ministers—

(a)

refuse under section 4(5) an application for entry in the register by a person who is operating as a property factor on the day on which section 3 comes into force,

(b)

remove a property factor from the register under section 4(7), F1...

(c)

remove a property factor from the register under section 8(1) F2, or

(d)

remove a property factor from the register under section 8A(3).

(2)

After the relevant date––

(a)

no costs incurred by the property factor in respect of work instructed after the relevant date are recoverable,

(b)

no charge imposed by the property factor which relates to a period after the relevant date is recoverable,

(c)

homeowners may appoint new property factors (or decide to manage their properties without appointing a property factor) in accordance with the procedures made in relation to such decisions in their title deeds or, as the case may be, the Tenement Management Scheme,

(d)

the property factor may not lodge a notice of potential liability for costs under section 13(1) of the Tenements (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 11) in respect of work instructed after the relevant date.

(3)

The Scottish Ministers must, as soon as practicable after the relevant date, F3publish in such manner as they think fit a notice of—

(a)

the refusal or removal mentioned in subsection F4(1),

(b)

the relevant date, and

(c)

the effect of subsection (2).

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Word in s. 9(1) repealed (1.4.2026) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 13), ss. 66(3)(a)(i), 86(2); S.S.I. 2026/115, reg. 2(1)(5), sch. Pt. 1

F2

S. 9(1)(d) and word inserted (1.4.2026) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 13), ss. 66(3)(a)(ii), 86(2); S.S.I. 2026/115, reg. 2(1)(5), sch. Pt. 1

F3

Words in s. 9(3) substituted (1.4.2026) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 13), s. 86(2), sch. para. 5(3); S.S.I. 2026/115, reg. 2(1)(5), sch. Pt. 1

F4

Word in s. 9(3)(a) substituted (1.4.2026) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 13), ss. 66(3)(b), 86(2); S.S.I. 2026/115, reg. 2(1)(5), sch. Pt. 1

Commencement

I1

S. 9 in force at 1.7.2012 by S.S.I. 2012/149, art. 2, sch. (with art. 3)

Notes on Consequences of refusal or removal

Textual amendments

F1

S. 8B and cross-heading inserted (1.4.2026 for specified purposes) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 13), ss. 67(2), 86(2); S.S.I. 2026/115, reg. 2(1)(5), sch. Pt. 1