PART 4Rent

CHAPTER 3Rent pressure zones

Designation and effect of rent pressure zone

39Limits on power to designate a zone

1

An area may not be designated as a rent pressure zone unless it is an area which the Scottish Ministers have been asked to designate as a rent pressure zone in an application under section 35.

2

An area may not be designated as a rent pressure zone more than once on the basis of the same application under section 35.

3

Regulations designating a rent pressure zone cease to have effect 5 years after they come into force, unless—

a

they provide, or another enactment provides, that they cease to have effect sooner, or

b

they are revoked.