Housing (Scotland) Act 2014

PART 8General

100Interpretation

In this Act—

• “the 1960 Act” means the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 (c.62),

• “the 1987 Act” means the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (c.26),

• “the 2001 Act” means the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 (asp 10),

• “the 2004 Act” means the Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 8),

• “the 2006 Act” means the Housing (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 1),

• “the 2010 Act” means the Housing (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 17),

• “First-tier Tribunal” means the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland.

101Subordinate legislation

(1)Any power of the Scottish Ministers to make an order or regulations under this Act includes power to make—

(a)different provision for different purposes or different areas,

(b)incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision.

(2)Orders or regulations—

(a)under section 20(1),

(b)under section 28(1),

(c)under section 34(5),

(d)under section 46(1) which set out the first code of practice or replace the code of practice,

(e)under section 61(3)(b),

(f)under section 94(3),

(g)under section 102(1) containing provisions which add to, replace, or omit any part of the text of an Act,

are subject to the affirmative procedure.

(3)All other orders and regulations under this Act are subject to the negative procedure.

(4)The Scottish Ministers must, before the end of the period of 18 months beginning with the day of Royal Assent, lay before the Scottish Parliament a draft Scottish statutory instrument containing regulations under section 46(1) setting out the first code of practice.

(5)This section does not apply to an order under section 104(3).

102Ancillary provision

(1)The Scottish Ministers may by order make such incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision as they consider necessary or expedient for the purposes of, or in connection with, any provision made by or under this Act.

(2)An order under subsection (1) may modify any enactment (including this Act).

103Minor and consequential amendments

Schedule 2 contains minor amendments and amendments consequential on the provisions of this Act.

104Commencement

(1)This section and sections 100, 101, 102 and 105 come into force on the day of Royal Assent.

(2)Section 93 comes into force at the end of the period of 2 months beginning with the day of Royal Assent.

(3)The other provisions of this Act come into force on such day as the Scottish Ministers may by order appoint.

(4)The Scottish Ministers may not appoint a day for section 1(1) to come into force which is before the end of the period of 2 years beginning with the day of Royal Assent.

(5)An order under subsection (3) may include transitional, transitory or saving provision as the Scottish Ministers consider necessary or expedient.

105Short title

The short title of this Act is the Housing (Scotland) Act 2014.