PART 1Preliminary
Interpretation2
1
In these Regulations—
“the Act” means the Housing (Scotland) Act 2006;
“application” means an application under section 22(1) or (1A) of the Act2;
“committee” means a private rented housing committee;
“the landlord’s duty” means the duty imposed by section 14(1) of the Act;
“panel” means the private rented housing panel;
“president” means the president of the panel;
“proceedings” means the proceedings in relation to the making of a decision under section 23(1), 24(1), 25(1) or 26(1) of, or paragraph 7(2) or (3) of schedule 2 to, the Act (including any preliminary issue);
“representative” means a representative under regulation 6; and
“working day” has the same meaning as in section 187 of the Act.
2
In these Regulations where any formal communication requires to be served upon the parties it shall be deemed to have been served on a party if it is served on a person who is acting as the representative of that party.
3
An officer of the panel appointed in accordance with Schedule 4 to the Rent (Scotland) Act 19843 may send a formal communication on behalf of the panel or the committee.
4
Any requirement in these Regulations for a document to be signed by a person is satisfied, in the case of a document which is transmitted by electronic communication in accordance with these Regulations, by electronic signature of the person who is required to sign the document.
5
For the purposes of paragraph (4)—
“electronic communication” has the meaning given to it by section 15 of the Electronic Communications Act 2000 (general interpretation)4;
“electronic signature” has the same meaning as in section 7 of that Act.