The Tenancy Deposit Schemes (Scotland) Regulations 2011

Landlord’s duty to provide information to the scheme administrator relating to landlord registration

44.—(1) In addition to the information required under regulation 21, when paying a tenancy deposit to a scheme administrator a landlord must provide information to the scheme administrator demonstrating that the landlord—

(a) is entered;

(b) has made an application to be entered which has not yet been determined; or

(c) is not entered but is appealing a decision to remove the landlord’s entry, or refuse the landlord’s application for entry,

in the register maintained by the local authority for the area in which the relevant property is situated under section 82(1) of the 2004 Act and that, where relevant, the entry specifies (by virtue of section 84(5)(1) (registration) of the 2004 Act) the address of the house to which the tenancy deposit relates.

(2) Details of the information received from the landlord under paragraph (1), or of the landlord’s failure to provide such information, must be notified by the scheme administrator to the local authority mentioned in that paragraph.

(1)

Section 84(5) was amended by section 176(4) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 1).