Miscellaneous and General

F154A“Developments of national significance” etc.: special procedure

F2(1)

Subsection (4) below applies to a harbour revision order or harbour empowerment order which falls within subsection (2) below.

(2)

F3An order falls within this subsection if—

(a)

F4it authorises the carrying out of work which would constitute a national development; or

(b)

F5it is the subject of a direction by the Scottish Ministers under this paragraph.

(3)

In subsection (2) above and subsection (5) below, references to a “national development” are to any development (within the meaning of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997) for the time being designated under section 3A(4)(b) of that Act as a national development.

F6(4)

The order is subject to the affirmative procedure.

(5)

F7An order (“the new order”) which revokes, amends or re-enacts an F8order (“the old order”) which was subject to the affirmative procedure by virtue of subsection (4) above is subject to the procedure in that subsection only if—

(a)

the F9new order authorises the carrying out of work which would constitute a national development (other than a national development to which the F10old order relates); or

(b)

the Scottish Ministers so direct.