The Rent Regulation (Forms and Information etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 1991

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Rent Regulation (Forms and Information etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 5th August 1991.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations–

(a) “the Act” means the Rent (Scotland) Act 1984; and

(b) a reference to a numbered Schedule is a reference to the Schedule to these Regulations bearing that number.

Register of rents

3.  The particulars prescribed in Schedule 1 shall be the particulars with regard to the tenancy which the register of rents is required to contain in pursuance of section 45(2)(a) or of that section as applied by section 56(2) of the Act.

Notices to quit

4.  Where a notice to quit is given by a landlord on or after the coming into force of these Regulations to determine–

(a) a protected tenancy; or

(b) a Part VII contract,

the notice shall contain, in such form as may be, the information set out in Schedule 2.

Form and content of rent books

5.—(1) Every rent book or similar document provided by a landlord for use in respect of a dwellinghouse, which is let on or subject to a regulated tenancy, shall contain a notice to the tenant in the form set out in Schedule 3, or in a form substantially to the same effect, of all the matters referred to in the said form.

(2) Every rent book or similar document, required by section 79(1) of the Act (rent books under Part VII contracts) shall be in the form set out in Schedule 4, or in a form substantially to the same effect, and shall contain the information referred to in the said form.

Forms

6.  The forms set out in Schedule 5, or forms substantially to the same effect, shall be the forms to be used for the purposes of the Act in the cases to which those forms are applicable.

Fee for certified copy

7.  For the purposes of section 45(4) of the Act (register of rents) the fee to be paid for a certified copy of an entry in the register of rents shall be £1.50.

Revocations and transitional provision

8.  The Regulations specified in Schedule 6 are hereby revoked except insofar as the forms, notices and information so prescribed are required to be used in connection with proceedings after the date on which these Regulations come into force and consequent upon action taken before that date.

James Douglas-Hamilton

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

St. Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

17th June 1991