The Scotland Act 1998 (Transitory and Transitional Provisions) (Orders subject to Special Parliamentary Procedure) Order 1999

Notice of special procedure orders

5.—(1) Before a special procedure order is made or confirmed by the Scottish Ministers, the requirements of the empowering enactment with respect to the service of notices shall be complied with, and the following notice shall be given by advertisement in the Edinburgh Gazette, and in the case of a special procedure order relating to a particular area, in at least one newspaper circulating in that area, that is to say—

(a) in the case of a special procedure order to be made by the Scottish Ministers on the application of any person, notice by the applicant of the purport of the application;

(b) in the case of a special procedure order to be confirmed by the Scottish Ministers, notice by the applicant of the order as submitted by him for confirmation;

(c) in the case of a special procedure order to be made by the Scottish Ministers otherwise than on the application of any person, notice by the Scottish Ministers of the order as proposed to be made.

(2) The notice shall specify the time within which and the manner in which objections maybe made to the application or to the proposed order, as the case may be.

(3) For the purposes of this article, a notice shall be sufficient notice of a special procedure order if it sets out the purport of the order and specifies a place where copies thereof may be inspected free of charge at all reasonable hours.