SCHEDULE 1 MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS
PART 1 AMENDMENTS OF THE BUILDING (SCOTLAND) ACT 1959
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section 11 (power of local authorities to require buildings to conform to building standards regulations), in subsection (3)—
(a)
the words “to the Secretary of State” shall cease to have effect
(b)
“(a)
where the direction applied for is given, at the end of the period of twenty-eight days from the date of the giving of the direction ;
(b)
where the direction is refused by the Secretary of State, at the end of the period of twenty-eight days from the date of the refusal to give the direction;
(c)
where the direction is refused by the buildings authority or is granted by the buildings authority subject to conditions—
(i)
if no appeal is made within the period within which an appeal can be made to the Secretary of State under section 4A of this Act, at the end of that period,
(ii)
if an appeal is made to the Secretary of State under the said section 4A, at the end of the period of twenty-eight days from the date on which the appeal is determined or abandoned;
and any reference in the subsequent provisions of this section to the specified provision shall, in a case where the specified provision is relaxed by any such direction, be construed as a reference to the specified provision as so relaxed.”.