Prospective
50.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this regulation, these Regulations bind the Crown.
(2) No contravention by the Crown of any provision of these Regulations shall make the Crown criminally liable under regulation 40 and no proceedings may be taken against the Crown under regulation 40 but the Court of Session may, on an application by SEPA, declare unlawful any act or omission of the Crown which constitutes such a contravention.
(3) Notwithstanding anything in paragraph (2), the provisions of these Regulations shall apply to persons in the public service of the Crown as they apply to other persons.
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 50 in force at 1.4.2006, see reg. 1(2)
Prospective
51.—(1) In the application of these Regulations to SEPA where it is carrying on, or intends to carry on, a controlled activity, and subject to paragraph (2), any functions conferred on SEPA by these Regulations shall instead be carried out by the Scottish Ministers.
(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to regulations 12(a), 17, 18(2), 27 to 31, 39, 46 to 49 and 52.
Commencement Information
I2Reg. 51 in force at 1.4.2006, see reg. 1(2)
Prospective
52. The Scottish Ministers may issue guidance to SEPA with respect to the carrying out of its functions under these Regulations, and SEPA shall have regard to any guidance issued by the Scottish Ministers under this regulation.
Commencement Information
I3Reg. 52 in force at 1.4.2006, see reg. 1(2)
Prospective
53.—(1) Any notice served or given under these Regulations by the Scottish Ministers or SEPA–
(a)shall be in writing; and
(b)may be withdrawn, varied or revoked by a further notice in writing (whether before or after the notice has come into effect).
(2) Any such notice may be served on or given to a person by leaving it at that person’s proper address or by sending it by post to that person at that address.
(3) Any such notice may–
(a)in the case of a body corporate, be served on the secretary or clerk of that body;
(b)in the case of a partnership, be served on or given to a partner or person having the control or management of the partnership business.
(4) For the purpose of this regulation and of paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Scotland Act 1998 (Transitory and Transitional Provisions) (Publication and Interpretation etc. of Acts of the Scottish Parliament) Order 1999(1) in its application to this regulation, the proper address of any person on or to whom any such notice is to be served or given shall be the last known address of that person, except that–
(a)in the case of a body corporate or their secretary or clerk, it shall be the address of the registered or principal office of that body;
(b)in the case of a partnership or person having the control or management of the partnership business, it shall be the principal office of the partnership,
and for the purposes of this paragraph the principal office of a company registered outside of the United Kingdom or of a partnership carrying on business outside the United Kingdom shall be their principal office within the United Kingdom.
(5) If the person to be served with or given any such notice has specified an address in the United Kingdom other than the proper address of that person within the meaning of paragraph (4) as the one at which that person or someone on behalf of that person will accept notices of the same description as that notice, that address shall be treated for the purposes of this regulation and the Scotland Act 1998 (Transitory and Transitional Provisions) (Publication and Interpretation etc. of Acts of the Scottish Parliament) Order 1999 as the proper address of that person.
Commencement Information
I4Reg. 53 in force at 1.4.2006, see reg. 1(2)
54. The transitional, savings and supplemental provisions contained in Schedule 10 to these Regulations shall have effect.
Commencement Information
I5Reg. 54 in force at 1.7.2005 for specified purposes, see reg. 1(3)
I6Reg. 54 in force at 1.10.2005 in so far as not already in force, see reg. 1(4)
S.I. 1999/1379.