(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations bring Part 1 and section 25 of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2019 (“the Act”) into force on 15 January 2020. Part 1 of the Act concerns the preparation, consultation, publication, review and reporting of the national transport strategy. Section 25 provides the Scottish Ministers with grant making powers for the purposes of supporting a person’s costs in making alternations to a vehicle to reduce its emissions and for the purposes of supporting a local authority to meet its costs in determining, making, operating or revoking a low emission zone scheme under Part 2 of the Act.
The Bill for the Act received Royal Assent on 15 November 2019. Sections 128 to 131 came into force on the following day.