Citation, commencement and application

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Mobile Homes (Written Statement) (Scotland) Regulations 2013 and come into force on 1st September 2013.

(2) These Regulations apply in relation to any written statement given on or after 1st September 2013 with respect to an agreement to which the 1983 Act applies in Scotland.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the 1983 Act” means the Mobile Homes Act 1983;

“written statement” means the written statement that the owner of a protected site is required by section 1(2) of the 1983 Act (particulars of agreements) to give to the proposed occupier.

Written statement: prescribed requirements

3.  The requirement with which a written statement must comply for the purposes of section 1(2) of the 1983 Act (in addition to the requirements of section 1(2)(a) to (d) of the 1983 Act) is that it must be in the form set out in the Schedule to these Regulations or a form substantially to the same effect.

Revocation

4.  The Mobile Homes (Written Statement) Regulations 1983(1) are revoked in relation to Scotland.

M J BURGESS

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

30th May 2013