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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 10Transitional Provisions and Sayings

Development plans

1Until the repeal of the enactments in Part II of the Act of 1947 mentioned in Schedule 11 to this Act as respects any area (Whether the whole or part of the district of a local planning authority), proposals for any alterations or additions to a development plan in force in the area shall not without the approval of the Secretary of State be submitted to him under section 4 of that Act.

2On the repeal of the said enactments in the said Part II as respects any area, the development plan which was in force in the area immediately before the repeal takes effect (hereafter in this Schedule referred to as " the old development plan ") shall, subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, continue in force as respects that area and be treated for the purposes of the Act of 1947, this Act, any other enactment relating to town and country planning, the [1963 c. 51.] Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1963 and the [1967 c. 1.] Land Commission Act 1967 as being comprised in, or as being, the development plan therefor.

3Subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, where by virtue of paragraph 2 above the old development plan for any area is treated as being comprised in a development plan for that area and there is a conflict between any of its provisions and those of the structure plan for that area, the provisions of the structure plan shall be taken to prevail for the purposes of Parts II and III of the Act of 1947, Part II of the Act of 1954, Part IV of the Act of 1959, Parts II and VI of this Act and Schedule 4 to this Act.

4Where a structure plan is in force in any area, but no local plan is in force in that area, a street authorisation map prepared in pursuance of the [S.I. 1966/1385.] Town and Country Planning (Development Plans) (Scotland) Regulations 1966 for that area shall—

(a)if in force immediately before the structure plan comes into force, be treated for the purposes of this Act as having been adopted as a local plan by the local planning authority ;

(b)if immediately before the structure plan comes into force it was under consideration by the Secretary of State, be treated for those purposes as having been so adopted on being approved by the Secretary of State.

5Where a structure plan is in force in any area, but no local plan is in force in that area, then, for any of the purposes of the Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1963—

(a)the development plan or current development plan shall, as respects that area, be taken as being whichever of the following plans gives rise to those assumptions as to the grant of planning permission which are more favourable to the owner of the land acquired, for that purpose, that is to say, the structure plan, so far as applicable to the area, and any alterations thereto, together with the Secretary of State's notice of approval of the plan and alterations, or the old development plan ;

(b)land situated in an area defined in the current development plan as an area of comprehensive development shall be taken to be situated in whichever of the following areas leads to such assumptions as aforesaid, that is to say, any area wholly or partly within the area first-mentioned in this paragraph selected by the structure plan as an action area or the area so defined in the old development plan.

6Subject to paragraph 7 below, the Secretary of State may by order wholly or partly revoke a development plan continued in force under this Schedule whether in its application to the whole of the district of a local planning authority or in its application to part of that district and make such consequential amendments to the plan as appear to him to be necessary or expedient.

7Before making an order with respect to a development plan under paragraph 6 above, the Secretary of State shall consult with the local planning authority for the district to which the plan relates.

8Any reference in paragraphs 1 and 2 above to the repeal of Part II of the Act of 1947 shall, in a case where that repeal is brought by an order under section 104 of this Act into operation on different days, be construed as a reference to a repeal of such of the provisions of the said Part II as may be specified in the order.