<EN xmlns="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:base="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2005/15" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation http://www.legislation.gov.uk/schema/en.xsd" SchemaVersion="1.0" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/15/notes" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2005/15/notes"><ukm:Metadata xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:ukm="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/metadata">
				<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/15/section/22/notes</dc:identifier><dc:subject>Environmental sustainability</dc:subject><dc:title>Explanatory Notes to Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Act 2005</dc:title><dc:creator>Scottish Executive</dc:creator><dc:publisher>King's Printer for Scotland</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2018-01-15</dc:modified>
				<atom:link xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/xml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/15/section/22/notes/data.xml"/>
				
				
				<atom:link xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/15/section/22/notes/data.xht" title="HTML snippet"/><atom:link xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="alternate" type="application/akn+xhtml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/15/section/22/notes/data.html" title="HTML5"/><atom:link xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/15/section/22/notes/data.htm" title="Website (XHTML) Default View"/><atom:link xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="alternate" type="text/csv" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/15/section/22/notes/data.csv" title="CSV"/><atom:link xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="alternate" type="application/pdf" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/15/section/22/notes/data.pdf" title="PDF"/>
				<atom:link xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="alternate" type="application/pdf" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/15/pdfs/aspen_20050015_en.pdf" title="Explanatory Note"/>
				
				<atom:link xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/act/introduction" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/15/introduction" title="Act Introduction"/><atom:link xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/act/toc" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/15/contents" title="Act Table of Contents"/><atom:link xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/resources" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/15/resources" title="More Resources"/>
				
				<atom:link xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/tableOfContents" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/15/notes/contents" title="Notes Table of Contents"/>
				<ukm:ENmetadata><ukm:DocumentClassification>
<ukm:DocumentCategory Value="primary"/>
<ukm:DocumentMainType Value="ScottishAct"/>
<ukm:DocumentStatus Value="final"/>
</ukm:DocumentClassification><ukm:Year Value="2005"/><ukm:Number Value="15"/><ukm:ISBN Value="0105910864"/></ukm:ENmetadata>
				<ukm:Alternatives><ukm:Alternative Date="2008-03-02" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/15/pdfs/aspen_20050015_en.pdf" Title="Explanatory Note"/></ukm:Alternatives>
			</ukm:Metadata><ExplanatoryNotes><ENprelims>
<Title><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2005/15" id="c00001" Class="ScottishAct" Year="2005" Number="0015">Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp15)</Citation></Title>
<Number>15</Number>
<DateOfEnactment>
<DateText>14 December 2005</DateText>
</DateOfEnactment>
</ENprelims><Body><Division id="d00006" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/15/notes/division/5" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2005/15/notes/division/5"><Title>The Act – Section by Section</Title><CommentaryPart id="n00025" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/15/notes/division/5/5" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2005/15/notes/division/5/5"><Title><CitationSubRef id="c00110" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2005/15/part/5" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="part-5">Part 5</CitationSubRef> – General Provisions</Title><CommentaryP1 id="n00027" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/15/notes/division/5/5/2" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2005/15/notes/division/5/5/2">
<Title><CitationSubRef id="c00114" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2005/15/section/22" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-22">Section 22</CitationSubRef> &amp; <CitationSubRef id="c00115" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2005/15/section/23" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-23">23</CitationSubRef> – Orders and Ancillary provision</Title>
<NumberedPara id="paragraph-44" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/15/notes/paragraph/44" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2005/15/notes/paragraph/44"><Pnumber>44</Pnumber><Para>
<Text><CitationSubRef id="c00117" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2005/15/section/22" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-22">Section 22</CitationSubRef> makes provision for the general powers and procedures for orders which may be made under powers conferred by the Act.  Section 23 separately gives powers to make subordinate legislation which is incidental, supplemental, consequential, transitional or savings in respect of the provisions of the Act itself.  Any order under section 23 which amends primary legislation must follow affirmative procedure.</Text>
</Para></NumberedPara>
</CommentaryP1></CommentaryPart></Division></Body></ExplanatoryNotes></EN>