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(1)A strategic development planning authority who prepare a strategic development plan are to prepare an action programme for the plan.
(2)A planning authority who prepare a local development plan are to prepare an action programme for the plan.
(3)In preparing the action programme the authority in question are to seek the views of, and have regard to any views expressed by—
(a)the key agencies, and
(b)such persons as may be prescribed.
(4)When an authority publish a proposed—
(a)strategic development plan under section 10(1)(a), or
(b)local development plan under section 18(1)(a),
they are to publish a proposed action programme for the plan.
(5)It is the duty of a key agency to co-operate with the authority in question in the preparation of the authority's action programme or proposed action programme.
(6)An action programme is a document setting out how the authority in question propose to implement the plan to which it relates.
(7)Regulations may make provision as to—
(a)the form and content of, and
(b)the procedures for preparing and adopting,
an action programme.
(8)The authority are to adopt and publish the action programme within 3 months after the date on which the plan to which it relates is constituted.
(9)The authority must keep the action programme 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.
(10)When they publish, or re-publish, an action programme, 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—
(i)in the case of a strategic development planning authority, in the strategic development plan area, and
(ii)in the case of a planning authority, in the part of the authority's district to which the local development plan in question relates,
and such publication, or re-publication, is to include by electronic means (as for example by means of the internet).]
Textual Amendments
F1Pt. 2 substituted (19.5.2008 for specified purposes, 25.6.2008 for specified purposes, 28.2.2009 in so far as not already in force) by Planning etc. (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 17), ss. 2, 59(2) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.S.I. 2008/165, arts. 1, 2 and S.S.I. 2008/427, arts. 1(1), 2-5); S.S.I. 2008/164, art. 2(1)(2), sch.; S.S.I. 2009/70, art. 2, sch.
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