Structure of the Act
7.The Act is in 17 Parts.
	Part 1 establishes the Scottish Housing Regulator as an independent regulator with the objective of safeguarding and promoting the interests of tenants, prospective tenants, homeless people and others using housing services provided by social landlords.
	Part 2 requires the Scottish Housing Regulator to keep a register of social landlords and sets out the criteria for registration and the circumstances in which a body may be removed from the register.
	Part 3 provides for Scottish Ministers to specify the standards and outcomes social landlords must aim to achieve in a Social Housing Charter, and for the Scottish Housing Regulator to set performance improvement targets and assess and report on their performance. Part 3 also requires the Scottish Housing Regulator to set out standards of governance and financial viability for registered social landlords.
	Part 4 provides the Scottish Housing Regulator with powers to carry out inquiries and obtain information from social landlords.
	Part 5 gives the Scottish Housing Regulator a range of powers to intervene where it has concerns about a social landlord’s performance, governance arrangements or financial viability. It also requires the regulator to issue a code of practice explaining how it will use its intervention powers.
	Part 6 provides for the Scottish Housing Regulator to set accounting requirements for registered social landlords.
	Part 7 provides the Scottish Housing Regulator with powers to deal with an insolvent registered social landlord.
	Part 8 deals with the constitution, rule changes, amalgamation and dissolution of registered social landlords.
	Part 9 sets out controls on the disposal of land by registered social landlords.
	Part 10 sets out a special procedure for certain disposals by and restructurings of registered social landlords where there is a change of landlord.
	Part 11 makes special provision, including approval by tenants, for a change of landlord from a local authority landlord.
	Part 12 makes provision for regulation of charitable registered social landlords.
	Part 13 makes provision for long leases and heritable securities where a social landlord or a rural housing body is, or is to be, the lessee or the debtor in the security.
	Part 14 reforms the Right to Buy.
	Part 15 amends the Housing (Scotland) Act 2006. The changes relate to local authority maintenance powers, charging orders and repayment charges, the scheme of assistance and enforcement powers.
	Part 16 includes miscellaneous amendments to existing legislation.
	Part 17 sets out supplementary and final provisions.