Two further provisions of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 came fully into force on Monday, completing a mobile-home pitch-fee power and opening an information-sharing route for the new homes ombudsman.
Section 61(2) is now in force for all remaining purposes. The wider section changed the uprating index for mobile-home pitch fees from the Retail Prices Index to the Consumer Prices Index; the subsection commenced on Monday gives Scottish ministers power to alter that index again by regulation. The CPI change itself had already been commenced for pitch-fee increases on or after 1 April 2026.
Section 74 also commenced. It amends the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman Act 2002 so that the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman may disclose relevant information to the new homes ombudsman established under the Building Safety Act 2022.
The same commencement instrument schedules other Housing Act reforms for 2027, including penalties for landlords who ignore information requests or provide false information, revised unlawful-eviction damages and changes connected with housing support and domestic abuse. Those later provisions are not yet in force.
Official commencement regulations
