These Regulations make further provision about the making and determination of applications by tenants to the private rented housing panel under section 22(1) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2006 and of applications by third party applicants under section 22(1A) of that Act.

Part 1 deals with preliminary matters on citation, commencement and interpretation.

Regulation 3 sets out the overriding objective of the Regulations.

Part 2, comprising regulations 5 to 7, sets out procedure for applications by a tenant or a third party applicant and allows for mediation of the dispute in cases considered suitable by the president of the panel.

Part 3, comprising regulations 8 to 26, provides for subsequent procedure.

Regulations 8 to 10 deal with the conduct of applications and additional or conjoined applications. Regulations 11 to 24 provide for the procedure of a committee of the panel.

Regulation 25 sets out a procedure for seeking payment of expenses .

Regulation 26 provides for a situation where a party to the action dies, or becomes insolvent or subject to a legal incapacity.

Part 4, comprising regulation 27, revokes the Private Rented Housing Panel (Applications and Determinations) (Scotland) Regulations 2007 except in relation to applications received by the panel prior to 1st December 2015.