The Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) (Scotland) Order 1991

Note as to Earlier Commencement Orders

(This note is not part of the Order)

The order has been preceded by an earlier Order entitled the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (Commencement No.1 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/2067) commencing provisions of the Act relating to England and Wales subject to transitional provisions. The order was made on 9th September 1991 to come into force on 25th September 1991.

The following Table of this Note sets out the provisions of the Act and the subject matter of the provisions.

Column 1	Column 2
Provisions of the Act	Subject Matter
Section 15	Assessment of environmental effects
Section 17	Power of local planning authority to decline to determine applications
Section 18	Dismissal of appeals in cases of undue delay
Section 21	Mines and waste
Section 22	Old mining permissions
Section 25 and Schedule 3 so far as it relates to paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 3	Listed buildings, conservation areas and hazardous substances
Section 26	Status of development plans
Section 29	Functions of Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission
Section 31(1), (4) and Schedule 6 (in so far as they relate to paragraphs 2 to 4, 6 to 12 and 14 to 49 of that Schedule), (5) and (6)	Planning compensation repeals
Section 32 and Schedule 7 in so far as they relate to paragraphs 8, 9(2)(c), 10(1), 36, 51, 54(1) and (3)(a), 56 and 57(1), (2)(b), (3)(b) and (4)	Planning minor and consequential amendments
Section 62	Powers to acquire land which will be affected by public works
Section 63	Advance payments of compensation and interest
Section 64	Planning assumptions in connection with highway schemes
Section 65	Certification of appropriate alternative development
Section 66	Compensation where permission for additional development granted after acquisition
Section 67	Time limit on validity of notice to treat
Section 68	Home loss payments
Section 69	Home loss payments: spouses having statutory rights of occupation
Section 70 and Schedule 15 (except so far as they relate to paragraph 32)	Further amendments relating to land compensation
Section 80 and Schedule 18 as they apply in relation to England and Wales except so far as they relate to the entries relating to the Planning (Hazardous Substances) Act 1990 in Part I of that Schedule	Interest on compensation and payments on account
Section 81	Abolition of new street byelaws
Section 84(6) and Schedule 19 so far as they relate to Part II, III and V of that Schedule and the repeals in Parts I and IV of that Schedule specified in Schedule 1 of the Commencement Order.	Repeals