Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Rent Assessment Committees (Scotland) Regulations 1980 and the Rent Assessment Committee (Assured Tenancies) (Scotland) Regulations 1989, (which regulate the procedures to be followed by rent assessment committees)—
in the case of the 1980 Regulations, to include in the sections under which parties to Part VII contracts can refer these contracts to a rent assessment committee, section 66A of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1984 which provides for transitional references of Part VII contracts in respect of increases in rent because of the council tax; and
in the case of the 1989 Regulations, to include in the references which can be made to a rent assessment committee the reference of a notice under section 25A of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988, informing an assured tenant that a landlord wishes to make a transitional increase in the rent because of the landlord’s liability to pay council tax.