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The Community Right to Buy (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2016

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Scottish Statutory Instruments

2016 No. 4

Land Reform

The Community Right to Buy (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2016

Made

6th January 2016

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

8th January 2016

Coming into force

15th April 2016

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 34(5), 52(3) and (7) and 98(3) of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Community Right to Buy (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2016 and come into force on 15th April 2016.

Amendment of the Community Right to Buy (Scotland) Regulations 2015

2.—(1) The Community Right to Buy (Scotland) Regulations 2015(2) are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).

(2) In regulation 1(3)(d)(ii) (application), for “2015” substitute “2016”.

(3) In regulation 20(2) (conduct of further ballot), after “provide” insert “to the ballotter”.

(4) In Schedule 11 (return of ballot results – section 52(3) of the Act)—

(a)in the heading, insert the words “FORM OF” before “RETURN”; and

(b)in the Form of Return of ballot results, after entry number 9, insert—

”.

AILEEN McLEOD

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

6th January 2016

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations make minor corrections to the Community Right to Buy (Scotland) Regulations 2015 (“the 2015 Regulations”). Regulation 2(2) substitutes the reference to the year “2015” in regulation 1(3)(d)(ii) of the 2015 Regulations with a reference to the year “2016”. Regulation 2(3) adds the words “to the ballotter” into regulation 20(2) of the 2015 Regulations. Regulation 2(4)(b) amends Schedule 11 to the 2015 Regulations to add an additional entry concerning the result into the form of return that must be notified by the ballotter as required by section 52(3) of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003.

(1)

2003 asp 2. Section 98(1) contains definitions of “Ministers” and “prescribed” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made. Sections 34 and 52 are relevantly amended by the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 6), sections 37, 52 and 144, and paragraph 8 of schedule 4.

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