The Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 (Supplementary and Consequential Provisions) Order 2018

Modification of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015

2.—(1) The Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 is amended as follows.

(2) In section 115 (allotment site regulations), in subsection (2)—

(a) for the words from “The” to “made” substitute “A local authority must make its first regulations under subsection (1)”; and

(b) at the end insert—

“, and those regulations must make provision for each allotment site in the area of the local authority.”.

(3) In section 116 (allotment site regulations: further provision)—

(a) in subsection (5), for “executed” substitute “made”;

(b) in subsection (6)(a), for the words from “on”, where it first occurs, to “regulations” substitute—

“(i) in the case of the first regulations made by a local authority under section 115(1), on the day after the day on which they are made,

(ii) in any other case, on the day after the day on which they are made or on such later day as may be specified in the regulations,”; and

(c) in subsection (8), for the words from “(but” to the end substitute—

“but—

(a) sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subsection (6) does not apply and sub-paragraph (ii) of that paragraph applies in relation to any such amendment or revocation, and

(b) subsection (6)(b) does not apply in relation to such a revocation.”.