Amendment of Assured Tenancies (Rent Book) (Scotland) Regulations 1988
2. The form of notice in the Schedule to the Assured Tenancies (Rent Book) (Scotland) Regulations 1988(1) shall be amended as follows:—
(a)at the end of paragraph 3 there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—
“(3) In circumstances in which the landlord is responsible for payment of the council tax the figure for rent payable contained in sub-paragraphs (1)(a) and (2)(b) above includes the tenant’s contribution to the council tax.”;
(b)at the end of paragraph 5 there shall be added the following sub-paragraph:—
“(d)if yours is a statutory or contractual assured tenancy, your landlord may serve a notice, AT9, proposing a new rent to take account of the council tax during the period commencing on 1st April 1993 and ending on 31st March 1994. If a notice is served on you there is a right to apply to a rent assessment committee for a determination of a market rent although you must do so before the day on which the new rent proposed by the landlord would take effect.”; and
(c)in paragraph 6(1) after “rent” there shall be inserted the following:—
“(other than in the circumstances specified in paragraph 5(d) above)”.
S.I. 1988/2085.