These Regulations amend the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications and Deemed Applications) (Scotland) Regulations 1997 (“the principal Regulations”), which make provision for the payment of fees to planning authorities in respect of— a applications made under Part III of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 for planning permission for development or for approval of matters reserved by an outline planning permission and in respect of applications for consent for the display of advertisements; b applications for planning permission which are deemed to have been made, by virtue of the provisions of section 133(7) of the 1997 Act, in connection with an appeal against an enforcement notice; and c applications for certificates of lawful use or development made under sections 150(1) and 151(1) of the 1997 Act.

The effect of these Regulations is that all fees currently payable under the principal Regulations are increased by approximately 10% which is to apply on and after 1st June 2000. Replacement scales of fees are set out for the period commencing on 1st June 2000 in the table contained in the Schedule. This table which is substituted for the existing tables in the Schedule to the principal Regulations, no longer includes at paragraphs 3 and 3A fees in respect of buildings of less than 465 square metres.