PART 4Rent
CHAPTER 3Rent pressure zones
Designation and effect of rent pressure zone
I1C136Scottish Ministers' duty to react to request
Within 18 weeks of receiving a valid application under section 35, the Scottish Ministers must lay before the Scottish Parliament either—
a
a draft of a Scottish statutory instrument containing regulations under section 37 designating the area specified in the application as a rent pressure zone, or
b
a document explaining why the Ministers have not laid before the Parliament the draft instrument described in paragraph (a).