(1)The president of the private rented housing panel must, in respect of each reporting year, prepare a written report on the exercise of functions by the president, by the panel and by private rented housing committees during that year.
(2)Each such report must report the frequency with which applications to the panel (whether valid or invalid within the terms of section 22) include complaints about the landlord's management of the tenancy.
(3)The president must submit each such report to the Scottish Ministers as soon as practicable after the end of the reporting year to which it relates.
(4)The Scottish Ministers must lay before the Scottish Parliament a copy of each such report submitted to them.
(5)A reporting year for the purposes of this section is—
(a)the period beginning with the day on which this section comes into force and ending with 31 December next following that date, and
(b)each successive calendar year.