The Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2020

Made3rd March 2020

Laid before the Scottish Parliament5th March 2020

Coming into force18th May 2020

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. 4 and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2020 and come into force on 18 May 2020.

(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 (3), the day appointed for the coming into force of the provisions of the Act specified in paragraph (2), in so far as not already in force, is 18 May 2020.

(2)

The provisions are—

(a)

section 17 (meaning of “development”: use of dwellinghouse for short-term holiday lets),

(b)

section 26 (conditional grant of planning permission: provision of toilet facilities within certain large developments), and

(c)

section 62 (minor and consequential amendments and repeals) and paragraph 9 of schedule 2 (regulations).

(3)

Sections 17, 62 and paragraph 9 of schedule 2 to the Act come into force on 18 May 2020 only for the purpose of making regulations under section 26B(5) of the 1997 Act3.

Transitional provision3.

The provisions of section 41B (conditional grant of planning permission: provision of toilet facilities within certain large developments) of the 1997 Act4 do not apply in respect of an application for planning permission made before 18 May 2020.

KEVIN STEWART

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

3rd March 2020

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations bring sections 17, 62 and paragraph 9 of schedule 2 of the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (“the Act”) into force on 18 May 2020 for the limited purpose of enabling regulations to be made. Section 26 comes into force on 18 May 2020 for all purposes, subject to the transitional provision in regulation 3.

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.

NOTE AS TO EARLIER COMMENCEMENT REGULATIONS

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The following provisions of the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 have been brought into force by commencement regulations made before the date of these Regulations.

Provision	Date of Commencement	S.I. No.
Sections 1, 2 and 10	8 November 2019	S.S.I. 2019/314
Sections 3, 5,7, 11, 14 and 62 and paragraph 9 of schedule 2 (for limited purposes)	8 November 2019	S.S.I. 2019/314
Sections 25 and 42	20 December 2019	S.S.I. 2019/377
Section 23	1 March 2020	S.S.I. 2019/377
Section 18(1), (2) and (4)	1 December 2019	S.S.I. 2019/385
Sections 20, 24, 29, 41, 47, 48, 49, 51, 52 and 53	1 December 2019	S.S.I. 2019/385
Sections 26, 62 and paragraph 9 of schedule 2 (for limited purposes)	1 December 2019	S.S.I. 2019/385
Sections 27 and 30	1 March 2020	S.S.I. 2019/385