Rent control in Scotland is based upon the statutory codes relating to private sector residential tenancies.
Although not strictly within the private sector, tenancies granted by housing associations, etc., are dealt with as far as is appropriate in this context.
Regarding Rent Act 1977 legislation, when the legislation deals solely with the law applicable to private sector residential tenancies, the Act usually covers, mutatis mutantis, both Scotland and England and Wales; but when the legislation also covers other matters, it is more customary for separate parallel Acts to be promoted.
In September 2022, the Sturgeon government capped rent rises to 3% and enacted an eviction moratorium in response to the cost-of-living crisis.
[1] In February 2024, Living Rent sent an open letter to Humza Yousaf arguing that the removal of protections would have "disastrous consequences" and that renters had been "pushed to the edge".