2015 No. 196 (C. 31)
Ancient Monuments
The Historic Environment Scotland Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2015
Made 13th May 2015
Laid before the Scottish Parliament 15th May 2015
Coming into force 1st October 2015

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the power conferred by section 31(2) of the Historic Environment Scotland Act 2014.
2014 asp 19.

1 Citation and commencement
This Order may be cited as the Historic Environment Scotland Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2015 and comes into force on 1st October 2015.

2 Appointed day
The day appointed for the coming into force of the provisions, to the extent not already in force, of the Historic Environment Scotland Act 2014 specified in column 1 of the Schedule (the subject matter of which is described in column 2 of the Schedule) is 1st October 2015.
FIONA HYSLOP A member of the Scottish Government St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh 13th May 2015
SCHEDULE
Column 1 Provisions of the Historic Environment Scotland Act 2014	Column 2 Subject matter
Section 1 and schedule 1	Establishment of Historic Environment Scotland
Section 2	Functions of Historic Environment Scotland
Section 3	Delegation of functions in relation to properties in care
Section 4	Properties in care
Section 5	Power of entry to investigate the historic environment
Section 6	Acquisition, deposit and disposal of objects
Section 7	Borrowing and lending of objects
Section 8	Delegation of functions in relation to collections
Section 10	Grants to Historic Environment Scotland by the Scottish Ministers
Section 11	Grants and loans by Historic Environment Scotland
Section 15 and schedule 2	Historic Environment Scotland’s functions in relation to scheduled monuments
Section 16 and schedule 3	Historic Environment Scotland’s functions in relation to listed buildings
Section 17 and schedule 4	Historic Environment Scotland’s functions in relation to the marine environment
Section 18	Dissolution of RCAHMS
Section 20	Grants and loans by the Scottish Ministers
Section 21	Local inquiries in relation to scheduled monuments etc.
Section 22	Meaning of “listed building”
Section 23	Applications for listed building consent
Section 24	Control of demolition
Section 28 and schedule 6	Consequential modifications
Article 2

EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order brings into force on 1st October 2015 for all purposes sections 1 to 8, 10, 11, 15 to 18, 20 to 24 and 28 and schedules 1 to 4 and 6 of the Historic Environment Scotland Act 2014 (“the Act”). The Act is now fully in force.

NOTE AS TO EARLIER COMMENCEMENT ORDERS
(This note is not part of the Order)
The Bill for the Act received Royal Assent on 9th December 2014. Sections 25 to 27 and 29 to 32 came into force on 10th December 2015. The following provisions of the Act have been brought into force by commencement orders made before the date of this Order.
Provision	Date of Commencement	S.S.I.No.
Section 1 and schedule 1 (for a limited purpose)	27th February 2015	2015/31
Section 2 (for a limited purpose)	27th February 2015	2015/31
Section 9	27th February 2015	2015/31
Sections 12 to 14	27th February 2015	2015/31
Section 15 and schedule 2 (for a limited purpose)	27th February 2015	2015/31
Section 16 and schedule 3 (for a limited purpose)	27th February 2015	2015/31
Section 19 and schedule 5	27th February 2015	2015/31
Section 21 (for a limited purpose)	27th February 2015	2015/31
Section 23 (for a limited purpose)	27th February 2015	2015/31
Section 28 and schedule 6 (except paragraphs 1(a), 2(b), 3(b), 4(b), 5(a)(ii), 5(b)(ii) and 6(b))	27th February 2015	2015/31
Section 1 and schedule 1 (partially)	19th January 2015	2014/368