Part 2Conservation and enhancement of natural features

Chapter 3Land management orders

30Power to make land management orders

1

The Scottish Ministers must, within 3 months of the expiry of the period during which representations on a proposal for a land management order may be made in pursuance of paragraph 3(c) of schedule 3, after considering the matters specified in subsection (2)—

a

make a land management order in the manner which has been proposed,

b

make such other land management order as the Scottish Ministers think fit in relation to the land, or any part of the land, to which the proposal relates, or

c

refuse to make a land management order in relation to that land or any part of it.

2

Those matters are—

a

the proposal under section 29(2) and the accompanying map,

b

any representations made to them in pursuance of paragraph 3(c) of schedule 3, and

c

any information provided to them in pursuance of paragraph 6 of that schedule in relation to the proposal.