The Limits on Rent Increases (Housing Associations) (Scotland) Order 1989

• Citation: S.I. 1989/2468
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Limits on Rent Increases (Housing Associations) (Scotland) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 5th February 1990.

Section 2 Variation of limits of rent increases

In section 58(2) of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1984 (which sets out the limits of rent increases for certain housing association rents) for paragraphs (a) and (b) there shall be substituted the following:—

(a) for any rental period beginning in the first stage, the rent limit shall be the rent limit immediately before the date of registration plus the greatest of—

(i) £104; or

(ii) one-quarter of the previous rent limit; or

(iii) one-half of the difference between the previous rent limit and the amount of the registered rent:

provided that nothing in this paragraph shall enable the rent to be increased above the amount of the registered rent;

(b) for any rental period beginning in the second stage the rent limit shall be the rent payable for the first stage plus any amount required to increase the rent payable to the registered rent.

Section 3 Transitional

The provisions of this Order shall apply to a rent registered before the coming into force of this Order at the date of the next subsequent stage as though it were the first stage and the rent limit the rent payable before that date.