Landlord registration hit by IT failures
Cities unable to process applications due to bugs
Defective software from the Scottish Executive has blighted the scheme to have private landlords register with local authorities as a means of controlling antisocial behaviour by tenants.
Today's Courier and Advertiser reports that although the legislation has been in force since last April, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow each have thousands of applications for registration outstanding because of technical difficulties in making the system work.
Additional resources have had to be deployed to deal with applications submitted on paper instead.
An Executive spokesman accepted that there had been problems and said the Executive was working closely with local authorities to achieve solutions to the difficulties.
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