EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations bring sections 18(1), (2) and (4), 20, 24, 29, 41, 47, 48, 49, 51, 52 and 53 of the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (“the Act”) into force on 1 December 2019 for all purposes and sections 26 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. They also bring sections 27 and 30 into force on 1 March 2020.

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.