Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1969

31 Section 99 (powers of entry) shall be amended as follows:—

(a) at the end of subsection (1)(c) there shall be added the words " or to serve any notice under Part II or Part V of the Act of 1969 ";

(b) after that subsection there shall be inserted the following subsections:—

“(1A) Any person duly authorised in writing by the Secretary of State may at any reasonable time enter any land for the purpose of surveying any building thereon in connection with a proposal to include the building in, or exclude it from, a list compiled or approved under section 28 of this Act.

(1B) Any person duly authorised in writing by the Secretary of State or a local planning authority may at any reasonable time enter any land for the purpose of ascertaining whether, with respect to any building on the land, an offence has been, or is being, committed under Part V of the Act of 1969, or whether the building is being maintained in a proper state of repair”;

(c) in subsection (2), for the words from " a Minister " to " so designated " there shall be substituted the words " a local authority or Minister authorised to acquire land under section 29 or 30 of the Act of 1969 ";

(d) in subsection (3)(a), at the end there shall be added the words " or under the Act of 1969 ".