Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004

30Power to make land management orders

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(1)The Scottish Ministers must, within 3 months of the expiry of the period during which representations on a proposal for a land management order may be made in pursuance of paragraph 3(c) of schedule 3, after considering the matters specified in subsection (2)—

(a)make a land management order in the manner which has been proposed,

(b)make such other land management order as the Scottish Ministers think fit in relation to the land, or any part of the land, to which the proposal relates, or

(c)refuse to make a land management order in relation to that land or any part of it.

(2)Those matters are—

(a)the proposal under section 29(2) and the accompanying map,

(b)any representations made to them in pursuance of paragraph 3(c) of schedule 3, and

(c)any information provided to them in pursuance of paragraph 6 of that schedule in relation to the proposal.