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Publication - Form

Private rented housing: pre-action protocols and seeking repossession on rent arrears grounds

Last updated
1 April 2024 - see all updates
Directorate
Local Government and Housing Directorate
Topic
Housing

Guidance for private landlords on pre-action protocols and seeking repossession of private rented housing on rent arrears grounds.

If a tenant has a private residential tenancy, the law states that they and their landlord must use certain forms/notices for certain purposes. These forms/notices are provided below, along with associated guidance for tenants and landlords. If you are giving one of these documents to a tenant or landlord, you should also provide them with the relevant guidance notes to help them understand what the document means for them and what they can do about it.

Separate guidance notes for landlords and tenants are provided below with the notice to leave, rent-increase notice, tenant's notice of an application to the First-tier Tribunal and the sub-tenant's notice to leave.

The Private Residential Tenancies prescribed notices and forms are:

  • notice to leave (and related guidance notes for tenants and landlords)

  • rent-increase notice (and related guidance notes for tenants and landlords)

  • tenant's notice to landlord of intention to apply to First-tier Tribunal (and related guidance notes for tenants and landlords)

  • sub-tenant's notice to leave (and related guidance notes for tenants and landlords)

  • rent increase referral by a tenant to a Rent Officer

  • improvements application by a landlord to a Rent Officer for a rent increase in a rent pressure zone.

The Scottish Government has produced online tools to help users to create and download the following notices:

For landlords:

 For tenants:

Notice to leave

Notice to Leave.pdf
File type
3 page PDF
File size
235.0 kB
Guidance notes for tenants on the notice to leave.pdf
File type
4 page PDF
File size
146.5 kB
Guidance notes for landlords on the notice to leave.pdf
File type
3 page PDF
File size
145.4 kB

Rent increase

Rent-Increase Notice.pdf
File type
5 page PDF
File size
225.0 kB
Guidance note for tenants on the rent increase notice.pdf
File type
3 page PDF
File size
241.9 kB
Guidance note for landlords on the rent increase notice.pdf
File type
3 page PDF
File size
149.2 kB

Sub-tenants

Sub-Tenancy Notice to Leave.pdf
File type
5 page PDF
File size
243.9 kB
Guidance notes for sub-tenants on the notice to leave.pdf
File type
4 page PDF
File size
143.7 kB
Guidance notes for head landlords on the sub-tenant's notice to leave.pdf
File type
4 page PDF
File size
237.9 kB

First-Tier tribunal

Tenant notification to landlord of intention to apply to First-tier Tribunal.pdf
File type
2 page PDF
File size
177.8 kB
Guidance notes for tenant on notification of intention to apply to First-tier Tribunal.pdf
File type
4 page PDF
File size
235.3 kB
Guidance notes for landlord on notification from tenant of intention to apply to First-tier Tribunal.pdf
File type
3 page PDF
File size
225.4 kB

Rent officers

Application by a Landlord to a Rent Officer.pdf
File type
5 page PDF
File size
213.6 kB
Referral by a Tenant to a Rent Officer.pdf
File type
9 page PDF
File size
278.5 kB

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Related information

First published
3 October 2020
Last updated
1 April 2024 - show all updates

  1. Updated to reflect legislation changes. Forms reviewed and rent increase notice reinstated.

  2. Updated title

  3. Updated Notice to leave PDFs.

  4. Removed PDFs and added text notice.

  5. Minor update

  6. Updated to reflect latest Coronavirus legislation

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