Write the words of this act the way you think they should read. Solon shows your change as a redline against the published text and pins it to that exact text, so it can never be applied to wording you did not see.
Change 1
As published
67 Register of rents under Part VII contracts.
(1) The First-tier Tribunal shall keep a register and shall make the register available for inspection in such place or places and in such manner as the Secretary of State may direct.
(2) The First-tier Tribunal shall cause to be entered in the register, with regard to any contract under which a rent is payable which has been approved, reduced or increased under section 66 above—
(a) the prescribed particulars with regard to the contract;
(b) a specification of the dwelling-house to which the contract relates; and
(c) the rent as approved, reduced or increased by the First-tier Tribunal, and, in a case in which the approval, reduction or increase is limited to rent payable in respect of a particular period, a specification of that period.
(2A) For the purposes of subsection (2) above the rent shall include any sums payable by the lessee to the lessor in respect of council tax, whether those sums are payable by virtue of a contract under which a rent is payable or otherwise.
(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(4) A document purporting to be a certificate signed on behalf of the First-tier Tribunal relating to any entry in the register under subsection (2) above shall, until the contrary is shown, be deemed to have been signed on behalf of the First-tier Tribunal, and shall be sufficient evidence of the matters contained in the entry in the register.
(5) Any entry in a register (hereinafter referred to as “the old register”)
(a) which was kept under section 89 of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971 before 16th May 1975, or
(b) which is kept for any area which ceases to be a registration area as a result of the establishment of a new registration area,
which relates to a dwelling-house which is situated in a new registration area shall be deemed for the purposes of this Part of this Act to be an entry in the register kept under this section for that new registration area.
(6) The old register shall be kept by the First-tier Tribunal and made available for inspection in such place or places and in such manner as the Secretary of State may direct; and subsection (4) above shall apply to any entry in the old register which is deemed to be an entry in the register kept for a new registration area.
(7) In this section “new registrataion area” means a registration area established under Part VII of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971 or this Part of this Act on or after 16th May 1975.
Your change, as a redline
67 Register of rents under Part VII contracts.
(1) The First-tier Tribunal shall keep a register and shall make the register available for inspection in such place or places and in such manner as the Secretary of State may direct.
(2) The First-tier Tribunal shall cause to be entered in the register, with regard to any contract under which a rent is payable which has been approved, reduced or increased under section 66 above—
(a) the prescribed particulars with regard to the contract;
(b) a specification of the dwelling-house to which the contract relates; and
(c) the rent as approved, reduced or increased by the First-tier Tribunal, and, in a case in which the approval, reduction or increase is limited to rent payable in respect of a particular period, a specification of that period.
(2A) For the purposes of subsection (2) above the rent shall include any sums payable by the lessee to the lessor in respect of council tax, whether those sums are payable by virtue of a contract under which a rent is payable or otherwise.
(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(4) A document purporting to be a certificate signed on behalf of the First-tier Tribunal relating to any entry in the register under subsection (2) above shall, until the contrary is shown, be deemed to have been signed on behalf of the First-tier Tribunal, and shall be sufficient evidence of the matters contained in the entry in the register.
(5) Any entry in a register (hereinafter referred to as “the old register”)
(a) which was kept under section 89 of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971 before 16th May 1975, or
(b) which is kept for any area which ceases to be a registration area as a result of the establishment of a new registration area,
which relates to a dwelling-house which is situated in a new registration area shall be deemed for the purposes of this Part of this Act to be an entry in the register kept under this section for that new registration area.
(6) The old register shall be kept by the First-tier Tribunal and made available for inspection in such place or places and in such manner as the Secretary of State may direct; and subsection (4) above shall apply to any entry in the old register which is deemed to be an entry in the register kept for a new registration area.
(7) In this section “new registrataion area” means a registration area established under Part VII of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971 or this Part of this Act on or after 16th May 1975.
One line that says what changes, such as "Halve the dog tax".
Who it helps, what it costs, what it fixes. It is what persuades people to support it.
A proposal here is not law. Support on Solon is evidence that people want the change; the official route says what it takes to make it law.
Sign in to file your proposal. What you have written stays on this page.
Ask what your change would do, who would gain and who would bear a cost, and where something like it is already law. The assistant reads your draft as it stands, cites the law and the studies it finds, and takes no side. What you file stays yours.