C1C2Part VI Enforcement
Pt. VI modified (16.9.2011) by The Storage of Carbon Dioxide (Access to Infrastructure) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2305), regs. 1, 19(2)
F1Enforcement charters
S. 158A and cross-heading inserted (1.4.2007) by Planning etc. (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 17), ss. 27, 59(2); S.S.I. 2007/130, art. 2(2), sch.
158AEnforcement charters
1
A planning authority are to prepare an enforcement charter; that is to say, a document in which are set out—
a
a statement of the authority's policies as regards their taking enforcement action for the purposes of this Act,
b
an account of how members of the public are to bring any ostensible breach of planning control to the attention of the authority, and
c
an account—
i
of how any complaint to the authority as regards the taking by them of enforcement action is to be made, and
ii
of their procedures for dealing with any such complaint.
2
The Scottish Ministers may issue guidance to a planning authority for the purposes of this section and an authority must have regard to any guidance so issued.
3
A planning authority must keep their enforcement charter under review and must update and re-publish it—
a
whenever required to do so by the Scottish Ministers, and
b
(subject to paragraph (a)) whenever they think it appropriate to do so but in any event within 2 years after last publishing (or re-publishing) it.
4
When they publish, or re-publish, their enforcement charter, the authority are to—
a
send two copies of it to the Scottish Ministers, and
b
place a copy of it in each public library in their district,
and such publication, or re-publication, is to include by electronic means (as for example by means of the internet).
Pt. VI applied (with modifications) (1.4.2010) by The Management of Extractive Waste (Scotland) Regulations 2010 (S.S.I. 2010/60), regs. 1(1), 30 (with arts. 4, 5)