
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Assured Tenancies (Rent Book) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 1st April 1993.
2 
The form of notice in the Schedule to the Assured Tenancies (Rent Book) (Scotland) Regulations 1988 shall be amended as follows:—
(a) at the end of paragraph 3 there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—“
(3) In circumstances in which the landlord is responsible for payment of the council tax the figure for rent payable contained in sub-paragraphs (1)(a) and (2)(b) above includes the tenant’s contribution to the council tax.”;
(b) at the end of paragraph 5 there shall be added the following sub-paragraph:—“
(d) if yours is a statutory or contractual assured tenancy, your landlord may serve a notice, AT9, proposing a new rent to take account of the council tax during the period commencing on 1st April 1993 and ending on 31st March 1994.  If a notice is served on you there is a right to apply to a rent assessment committee for a determination of a market rent although you must do so before the day on which the new rent proposed by the landlord would take effect.”; and
(c) in paragraph 6(1) after “rent” there shall be inserted the following:—“
 (other than in the circumstances specified in paragraph 5(d) above)”.
James Douglas-Hamilton
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
11th March 1993