Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Town and Country Planning (Tree Preservation Order and Trees in Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2014 and come into force on 1st April 2014.
Amendment of the Town and Country Planning (Tree Preservation Order and Trees in Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Regulations 2010
2.—(1) The Town and Country Planning (Tree Preservation Order and Trees in Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Regulations 2010(1) are amended in accordance with paragraph (2).
(2) In regulation 8 (trees in conservation areas)—
(a)after paragraph (1)(a) insert—
“(aa)the carrying out of any action—
(i)required to be taken in accordance with a high hedge notice; or
(ii)authorised by virtue of section 22(1) of the High Hedges (Scotland) Act 2013(2);”; and
(b)in paragraph (2) after the definition of “diameter” insert—
““high hedge notice” has the meaning given by section 8(2) of the High Hedges (Scotland) Act 2013;”.
DEREK MACKAY
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
26th February 2014