
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Rent Assessment Committees (Scotland) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 1st April 1993.
2 
In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) of the Rent Assessment Committees (Scotland) Regulations 1980, there shall be substituted for the definition of “Part VII contract” the following definition—“
 “Part VII contract” means a contract to which section 63(1) of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1984 applies and which is referred by a party to a committee under section 65, 66A or 68 of that Act;”.
3 
In regulation 3 (application) of the Rent Assessment Committee (Assured Tenancies) (Scotland) Regulations 1989, after paragraph (b) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—“
(bb) a reference by a tenant under section 25A(4)(a) of the 1988 Act of a notice which has been served on him under section 25A(2) of that Act (notice proposing a new rent to take account of any sums payable by the tenant to the landlord in respect of council tax);”.
James Douglas-Hamilton
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
St. Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
11th March 1993