The Structure and a Summary of the Act
5.The Act is in eight Parts.
	Part 1 contains provisions which will abolish the right to buy.
	Part 2 makes provision in relation to social housing allocations; the extension of the term of the short Scottish secure tenancy; the right to assign or sublet a tenancy, to establish a joint tenancy and to succeed to a secure tenancy.
	Part 3 transfers jurisdiction for civil cases relating to the private rented sector from the sheriff court to the First-tier Tribunal; makes provisions which deem a landlord as being registered on the landlord register where an application has not been determined by a local authority within 12 months; amends the repairing standard for private rented housing in Part 1 of the 2006 Act; provides third party reporting rights to the private rented housing panel for enforcement of the landlords’ repairing standard, and makes provision for regulations to provide a scheme to designate Enhanced Enforcement Areas.
	Part 4 makes provision for the registration of letting agents (including a fit and proper person test); creates an offence of operating as a letting agent without being registered; sets out the process for handling disputes between letting agents and landlords or tenants; and allows the Scottish Ministers to provide for a letting agent code of practice by regulations.
	Part 5 makes provision for the licensing of relevant permanent sites in Scotland; (including a fit and proper person test); for offences relating to permanent sites and for local authority enforcement of statutory requirements, including powers of entry and recovery of expenses in relation to enforcement action.
	Part 6 amends local authority powers to enforce repairs and maintenance in private homes and enables provision to be made by regulations to allow registered social landlords to recover certain costs by charging order.
	Part 7 makes a number of miscellaneous amendments: granting the Scottish Ministers powers to exempt certain schemes, such as shared equity schemes, from the right to redeem a heritable security after 20 years in relation to private dwellings; the disqualification of certain persons from sitting on tribunals that are hearing housing cases; it amends the Scottish Housing Regulator’s powers to transfer assets following inquiries; provides for arrangements under which a registered social landlord (RSL) would become the subsidiary of another body to be subject to the consent of the Regulator in the same way as arrangements by which a RSL would transfer its assets to another RSL; and repeals provisions in the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 that designate pre-cast reinforced concrete houses as defective.
	Part 8 sets out various supplementary and final provisions.