2020 No. 346 (C. 29)

Local Government

The Islands (Scotland) Act 2018 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2020

Made30th October 2020

Laid before the Scottish Parliament3rd November 2020

Coming into force23rd December 2020

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 31(2) of the Islands (Scotland) Act 20181.

Citation and commencement1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Islands (Scotland) Act 2018 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2020 and come into force on 23 December 2020.

Appointed day2.

(1)

The day appointed for the coming into force of the provisions of the Islands (Scotland) Act 2018 specified in paragraph (2) is 23 December 2020.

(2)

The provisions are—

(a)

section 7 (duty to have regard to island communities),

(b)

section 8 (island communities impact assessment),

(c)

section 9 (reviews of decisions relating to island communities impact assessments),

(d)

section 10 (compliance with section 7 duty),

(e)

section 11(1) (guidance about section 7 duty),

(f)

section 12 (reporting regarding section 7 duty),

(g)

section 13 (preparation of island communities impact assessment by Ministers), and

(h)

section 14 (duty of the Scottish Ministers to have regard to request for retrospective island communities impact assessment).

PAUL WHEELHOUSE

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

30th October 2020

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations bring sections 7 to 10, 11(1) and 12 to 14 of the Islands (Scotland) Act 2018 (“the Act”) into force on 23 December 2020. The Act makes provision for duties of certain authorities in respect of policies, strategies and services, the requirement to report on compliance with duties, the preparation of island communities impact assessments, making regulations about reviews of decisions relating to island communities impact assessments and duties on the Scottish Ministers to have regard to requests for retrospective island communities impact assessments.

The Bill for the Act received Royal Assent on 6 July 2018. Sections 1, 2 and 30 to 32 came into force the following day.

NOTE AS TO EARLIER COMMENCEMENT REGULATIONS

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The following provisions of the Islands (Scotland) Act 2018 have been brought into force by commencement regulations made before the date of these Regulations.

Provision	Date of Commencement	S.I. No.
Sections 3 to 6	4 October 2018	S.S.I. 2018/282
Sections 15 to 21	4 October 2018	S.S.I. 2018/282
Sections 27 to 29	4 October 2018	S.S.I. 2018/282
Section 11(2)	18 April 2019	S.S.I. 2019/134
Schedule	18 April 2019	S.S.I. 2019/134