The Town and Country Planning (Simplified Planning Zones) (Scotland) Regulations 1995

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“by advertisement” means by publication in the Edinburgh Gazette and by local advertisement;

“by local advertisement” means by publication on at least one occasion in two successive weeks in a local newspaper circulating in the area of the planning authority;

“community council” means a community council as referred to in Part IV of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973(1);

“duly made” means made in accordance with these Regulations;

“European site” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 10(1) of the Conservation (Natural Habitats, Etc.) Regulations 1994(2);

“new law” means the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972 in the form it is in force immediately after the coming into force of these Regulations, and these Regulations;

“old law” means the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972 in the form it was in force immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations, and the Town and Country Planning (Simplified Planning Zones) (Scotland) Regulations 1987(3);

“owner” means, in relation to any land, any person who, in respect of such land—

(a)

is the proprietor of the dominium utile, or

(b)

is the lessee under a lease thereof of which not less than seven years remain unexpired;

“Schedule 6A” means that Schedule to the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972;

“scheme” means a simplified planning zone scheme within the meaning of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972.

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations, a reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in that regulation and a reference to a numbered form is a reference to the form bearing that number in the Schedule to these Regulations.

(1)

1973 c. 65, as read with the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39), section 22.

(2)

S.I. 1994/2716.

(3)

S.I. 1987/1532; to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.