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30th October 2025SSI 2025/312. The Building (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025
3rd November 2025The Renters Rights Act 2025 (A 2025 c.26)
The Act contains five parts and six schedules.
- Part 1 deals with changes to assured tenancy legislation, including abolishing Section 21 evictions and fixed term assured tenancies; making changes to landlords’ grounds for possession; making changes to the procedure for rent increases; making provisions for requirements relating to rent in advance, making provision for the right to request permission to keep a pet; prohibiting rental bidding practices; making it unlawful for landlords and agents to engage in discriminatory conduct against those in receipt of benefits or who have children; and applying ‘Awaabs Law’ to the private rented sector.
- Part 2 makes provisions for the new Ombudsman (landlord redress scheme) and the PRS Database.
- Part 3 introduces provisions for a Decent Homes Standard to apply to the private rented sector.
- Part 4 deals with enforcement of the reforms introduced by the Bill including establishing a Lead Enforcement Authority, expanding the use of rent repayment orders and giving new investigatory powers to local housing authorities.
- Part 5 contains the technical Clauses related to the Bill, including territorial extent, commencement and application, and powers to make consequential and transitional provision.