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Scottish Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 164

ACQUISITION OF LAND

The Town and Country Planning (Limit of Annual Value) (Scotland) Order 2001

Made

23rd April 2001

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

26th April 2001

Coming into force

1st June 2001

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 100(3)(a) and 275(8) of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997(1) and of all the powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Town and Country Planning (Limit of Annual Value) (Scotland) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 1st June 2001.

Limit of Annual Value

2.  The amount prescribed for the purposes of section 100(3)(a) of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 is £24,725.

Revocation

3.  The Town and Country Planning (Limit of Annual Value) (Scotland) Order 1995(2) is hereby revoked.

LEWIS MACDONALD

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

23rd April 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order prescribes £24,725 as the limit of annual value for the purposes of section 100(3)(a) of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 (which relates to the circumstances in which authorities may be obliged to purchase interests of owner-occupiers affected by planning proposals) and replaces the limit of £21,500 prescribed by the Town and Country Planning (Limit of Annual Value) (Scotland) Order 1995 (which is itself revoked).

(1)

1997 c. 8. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).

(2)

S.I. 1995/3048