Statutory Instruments
TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING, SCOTLAND
Made
31st August 1992
Laid before Parliament
4th September 1992
Coming into force
25th September 1992
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 21 and 273(3) of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 25 September 1992.
2. The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Order 1992(2) is hereby amended as follows:—
(a)In article 2—
(i)in paragraph (1) in the definition of “existing”, after the word “machinery” shall be inserted the words “or any use”;
(ii)paragraph (3) shall be omitted.
(b)In article 3 after paragraph (4) shall be inserted —
“(4A) The permission granted by Schedule 1 shall not apply if —
(a)in the case of a permission granted in connection with an existing building, the building operations involved in the construction of that building are unlawful;
(b)in the case of permission granted in connection with an existing use, that use is unlawful.”.
Allan Stewart
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
31st August 1992
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Order 1992 to provide that permitted development rights may only be exercised in relation to an existing use or building if the existing use or the building operations in respect of the construction of the existing building are lawful.
1972 c. 52; section 21(1) to (3) was substituted by the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34), Schedule 13, paragraph 5.