PART 3Amendments to subordinate legislation to address deficiencies arising from the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union

Amendment of regulation 7 (metadata)

5.—(1) Regulation 7 is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (2)(aa), for “Annex I to the Directive” substitute “Annex 1 of the Metadata Regulation”.

(3) For paragraph (4) substitute—

(4) A Scottish public authority or a third party must, in relation to any spatial data set or spatial data service for which that authority or third party is responsible, have in place metadata relating to—

(a)spatial data sets corresponding to the themes listed in Annexes 1 to 3 of the Metadata Regulation, and

(b)spatial data services relating to those data sets..

(4) Omit paragraph (5).