(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations bring paragraph 4 of schedule 2 of the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (“the Act”) fully into force on 11 February 2023. They also bring section 62 of the Act into force on that date for the limited purposes of the commencement of that paragraph.
These Regulations bring sections 6, 9 and 13(1), (2) and (3) of, and paragraph 1 of schedule 2 of, the Act fully into force on 12 February 2023 and bring section 62 of the Act into force on that date for the limited purposes of the commencement of that paragraph.
Regulation 4 contains saving and transitional provisions to enable supplementary guidance to continue to be issued for a period notwithstanding the repeal of section 22 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 by section 9 of the Act and for such supplementary guidance to comprise part of the development plan for the area to which it relates.
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.