2019 No. 314 (C. 15)
Town And Country Planning

The Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2019

Made
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
Coming into force
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 63(2) and (3) of the Planning (Scotland) Act 20191.

Citation, commencement and interpretation1.

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2019 and come into force on 8 November 2019.

(2)

In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019, and

“the 1997 Act” means the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 19972.

Appointed day2.

(1)

Subject to paragraph (2), the day appointed for the coming into force of the provisions of the Act specified in column 1 of the table in the schedule (the subject matter of which is described in column 2 of that table) is 8 November 2019.

(2)

Where a purpose is specified in column 3 of that table in relation to any provision specified in column 1, that provision comes into force on 8 November 2019 only for that purpose.

KEVIN STEWART
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

SCHEDULEPROVISIONS OF THE ACT COMING INTO FORCE ON 8TH NOVEMBER 2019

Regulation 2

Column 1

Provisions of the Act

Column 2

Subject Matter

Column 3

Purpose

Section 1

Purpose of planning

Section 2

National Planning Framework

Section 3

Open space strategy

For the purpose of making regulations under section 3G(5) of the 1997 Act3

Section 5

Strategic development: regional spatial strategies

For the purpose of issuing, varying, publishing and revoking guidance under section 4ZE of the 1997 Act4

Section 7

Local development plans

For the purpose of—

  1. (a)

    making regulations under sections 16B, 16D, 18, 19, 20A of the 1997 Act, and

  2. (b)
    issuing, varying, publishing and revoking guidance under section 16C of the 1997 Act5

Section 10

Key agencies

Section 11

Delivery programmes

For the purpose of making regulations under section 21(7) of the 1997 Act6

Section 14

Local place plans

For the purpose of making regulations under schedule 19 of the 1997 Act7

Section 62 and paragraph 9 of schedule 2

Minor and consequential amendments and repeals

For the purpose of making regulations under section 3G(5)(b) of the 1997 Act

EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations bring sections 1, 2 and 10 of the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (“the Act”) into force on 8 November 2019 for all purposes and sections 3, 5, 7, 11, 14 and 62 and paragraph 9 of schedule 2 of the Act into force on that date for the limited purposes of enabling regulations to be made and guidance to be issued, varied, published and revoked.

The Bill for the Act received Royal Assent on 25 July 2019. Sections 58 to 61, 63 and 64 came into force on the following day.