Private rented housing Enhanced Enforcement Areas 9 – Privately owned housing local authority powers 10 – 11 Elsewhere in the Act… The Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 GWSF Member Briefing This briefing provides a summary of what the final Housing (Scotland) Act contains, after the various changes that were made during the Bill’s Parliamentary passage which ended in June. The Bill received Royal Assent on 1 August 2014 and became the Housing (Scotland) Act 2014. Where appropriate it includes brief comments on of the changes the Act GWSF’s view will bring. 1 Introduction The Act can be seen at This briefing does not cover every Timetable - when will it all come into provision in the Act but focuses instead force? on: Different parts of the Act will be brought Social sector changes to the right into force at different times. In most to buy, allocations and tenancies in the cases we don’t yet know much Changes relating to the powers way of commencement dates, though of the Scottish Housing we do know that the right to buy will be Regulator and to tenant ballots in abolished two years after Royal Assent group structures hence on 1 August 2016. – Private rented sector Enhanced – Enforcement Areas We also understand that the provisions Privately owned housing – on tenant ballots in group structure enhanced local authority powers over owners
Private rented housing – Enhanced Enforcement Areas 9 Privately owned housing – local authority powers 10 Elsewhere in the Act… 11 The Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 GWSF Member Briefing This briefing provides a summary of what the final Housing (Scotland) Act contains, after the various changes that were made during the Bill’s Parliamentary passage which ended in June. The Bill received Royal Assent on 1 August 2014 and became the Housing (Scotland) Act 2014. Where appropriate it includes brief comments on GWSF’s view of the changes the Act will bring. 1 Introduction This briefing does not cover every provision in the Act but focuses instead on: Social sector changes to the right to buy, allocations and tenancies Changes relating to the powers of the Scottish Housing Regulator and to tenant ballots in group structures Private rented sector – Enhanced Enforcement Areas Privately owned housing – enhanced local authority powers over owners The Act can be seen at Timetable - when will it all come into force? Different parts of the Act will be brought into force at different times. In most cases we don’t yet know much in the way of commencement dates, though we do know that the right to buy will be abolished two years after Royal Assent – hence on 1 August 2016. We also understand that the provisions on tenant ballots in group structure
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