2010 No. 61

Town And Country Planning

The Town and Country Planning (Prescribed Date) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010

Made

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

Coming into force

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 26AA(2)(a) of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 19971 and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation and commencement1

These Regulations may be cited as the Town and Country Planning (Prescribed Date) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010 and come into force on 31st March 2010.

Amendment of the Town and Country Planning (Prescribed Date) (Scotland) Regulations 20072

1

The Town and Country Planning (Prescribed Date) (Scotland) Regulations 20072 are amended in accordance with paragraph (2).

2

In regulation 2 (prescribed date) for “1st April 2010” substitute “31st March 2013”.

STEWART STEVENSONAuthorised to sign by the Scottish MinistersSt Andrew’s House,Edinburgh
EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the date prescribed in the Town and Country Planning (Prescribed Date) (Scotland) Regulations 2007 for the purposes of section 26AA(2) of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 (“the Act”). The prescribed date is changed from 1st April 2010 to 31st March 2013. The effect is that 31st March 2013 is, in the absence of a prior grant or refusal of planning permission under section 31A of the Act, the earliest date on which planning permission would be required for the operation of a marine fish farm using equipment placed or assembled before 1st April 2007 (the date on which section 3(1)(c) of the Planning etc. (Scotland) Act 2006 came into force).