Rent (Scotland) Act 1984

67 Register of rents under Part VII contracts. S

(1) The [F1 private rented housing] committee shall keep a register and shall make the register available for inspection in such place or places and in such manner as the Secretary of State may direct.

(2) The committee shall cause to be entered in the register, with regard to any contract under which a rent is payable which has been approved, reduced or increased under section 66 above—

(a) the prescribed particulars with regard to the contract;

(b) a specification of the dwelling-house to which the contract relates; and

(c) the rent as approved, reduced or increased by the committee, and, in a case in which the approval, reduction or increase is limited to rent payable in respect of a particular period, a specification of that period.

[F2 (2A) For the purposes of subsection (2) above the rent shall include any sums payable by the lessee to the lessor in respect of council tax, whether those sums are payable by virtue of a contract under which a rent is payable or otherwise.]

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(4) A document purporting to be a certificate signed by the clerk or other authorised officer of the committee relating to any entry in the register under subsection (2) above shall, until the contrary is shown, be deemed to have been signed by such clerk or other officer, and shall be sufficient evidence of the matters contained in the entry in the register.

(5) Any entry in a register (hereinafter referred to as “the old register”)

(a) which was kept under section 89 of the M1 Rent (Scotland) Act 1971 before 16th May 1975, or

(b) which is kept for any area which ceases to be a registration area as a result of the establishment of a new registration area,

which relates to a dwelling-house which is situated in a new registration area shall be deemed for the purposes of this Part of this Act to be an entry in the register kept under this section for that new registration area.

(6) The old register shall be kept by such committee and made available for inspection in such place or places and in such manner as the Secretary of State may direct; and subsection (4) above shall apply to any entry in the old register which is deemed to be an entry in the register kept for a new registration area.

(7) In this section “new registrataion area” means a registration area established under Part VII of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971 or this Part of this Act on or after 16th May 1975.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 67(1) substituted (3.9.2007) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 1), s. 195(3), sch. 6 para. 5(a) (with s. 193); S.S.I. 2007/270, art. 3

F2 S. 67(2A) inserted (1.4.1993) by S.I. 1993/658, art. 2, Sch. 1 para. 6.

F3 S. 67(3) repealed by Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 (c. 43, SIF 61), s. 72(3), Sch. 10

Marginal Citations

M1 1971 c. 28.