Scottish Statutory Instruments
Town And Country Planning
Made
3rd October 2019
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
7th October 2019
Coming into force
8th November 2019
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 63(2) and (3) of the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019(1).
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2019 and come into force on 8 November 2019.
(2) In these Regulations—
“the Act” means the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019, and
“the 1997 Act” means the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997(2).
2.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the day appointed for the coming into force of the provisions of the Act specified in column 1 of the table in the schedule (the subject matter of which is described in column 2 of that table) is 8 November 2019.
(2) Where a purpose is specified in column 3 of that table in relation to any provision specified in column 1, that provision comes into force on 8 November 2019 only for that purpose.
KEVIN STEWART
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
3rd October 2019
Regulation 2
Column 1 Provisions of the Act | Column 2 Subject Matter | Column 3 Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Section 1 | Purpose of planning | |
| Section 2 | National Planning Framework | |
| Section 3 | Open space strategy | For the purpose of making regulations under section 3G(5) of the 1997 Act(3) |
| Section 5 | Strategic development: regional spatial strategies | For the purpose of issuing, varying, publishing and revoking guidance under section 4ZE of the 1997 Act(4) |
| Section 7 | Local development plans | For the purpose of— |
(a) making regulations under sections 16B, 16D, 18, 19, 20A of the 1997 Act, and (b) issuing, varying, publishing and revoking guidance under section 16C of the 1997 Act(5) | ||
| Section 10 | Key agencies | |
| Section 11 | Delivery programmes | For the purpose of making regulations under section 21(7) of the 1997 Act(6) |
| Section 14 | Local place plans | For the purpose of making regulations under schedule 19 of the 1997 Act(7) |
| Section 62 and paragraph 9 of schedule 2 | Minor and consequential amendments and repeals | For the purpose of making regulations under section 3G(5)(b) of the 1997 Act |
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations bring sections 1, 2 and 10 of the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (“the Act”) into force on 8 November 2019 for all purposes and sections 3, 5, 7, 11, 14 and 62 and paragraph 9 of schedule 2 of the Act into force on that date for the limited purposes of enabling regulations to be made and guidance to be issued, varied, published and revoked.
The Bill for the Act received Royal Assent on 25 July 2019. Sections 58 to 61, 63 and 64 came into force on the following day.
Section 3G is inserted into the 1997 Act by section 3 of the Act.
Sections 4ZA to 4ZE are inserted into the 1997 Act by section 5 of the Act.
Sections 16B, 16C and 16D are inserted into the 1997 Act by section 7(6) of the Act and sections 18, 19 and 20A of the 1997 Act are amended by section 7(8), (9) and (13) of the Act.
Section 21 is amended by section 11 of the Act.
Schedule 19 is inserted into the 1997 Act by section 14(7) of the Act.