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The Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (Commencement No. 6 and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2021
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Scottish Statutory Instruments
2021 No. 101 (C. 4)
Town And Country Planning
The Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (Commencement No. 6 and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2021
Made
22nd February 2021
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
24th February 2021
Coming into force
1st April 2021
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 63(2) and (3) of the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 M1.
Marginal Citations
Citation, commencement and interpretationS
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (Commencement No. 6 and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2021 and come into force on 1 April 2021.
(2) In these Regulations—
“the Act” means the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019, and
“the 1997 Act” means the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 M2.
Commencement Information
Marginal Citations
M21997 c.8. Section 35B was introduced into the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 by section 11 of the Planning etc. (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 17).
Appointed day – material change of use – short term letsS
2. The day appointed for the coming into force of section 17 (meaning of development: use of dwellinghouse for short-term lets) of the Act, in so far as not already in force, is 1 April 2021.
Appointed day – pre-application consultationS
3. Subject to regulation 4, the day appointed for the coming into force of section 18(3) (pre-application consultation) of the Act is [F11 April 2022].
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 3 substituted (29.9.2021) by The Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (Commencement No. 6 and Transitional Provision) Amendment Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/291), regs. 1, 2(2)
Commencement Information
Transitional provisionS
4.—(1) Section 35B(3) (pre-application consultation: compliance) of the 1997 Act applies, as amended by section 18(3) of the Act, in relation to the submission of a relevant application with the modification that the maximum period of 18 months which is to elapse before the relevant application is submitted is to be treated as a reference to the period of 18 months beginning on [F21 April 2022] rather than to the period of 18 months after the giving of the proposal of application notice.
(2) In this regulation, “relevant application” means an application for planning permission in respect of which the prospective applicant has given a proposal of application notice to the planning authority before [F31 April 2022].
Textual Amendments
F2Words in reg. 4(1) substituted (29.9.2021) by The Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (Commencement No. 6 and Transitional Provision) Amendment Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/291), regs. 1, 2(3)(a)
F3Words in reg. 4(2) substituted (29.9.2021) by The Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (Commencement No. 6 and Transitional Provision) Amendment Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/291), regs. 1, 2(3)(b)
Commencement Information
AILEEN CAMPBELL
A member of the Scottish Government
St Andrew's House,
Edinburgh
Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations bring section 17 of the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (“the Act”) fully into force on 1 April 2021 and section 18(3) of the Act into force on 1 October 2021 subject to the transitional provision in regulation 4.
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 Orders
(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 | Instrument 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 |
| Section 17, 62 and paragraph 9 of schedule 2 (for limited purposes) | 18 May 2020 | S.S.I. 2020/67 |
| Section 26 | 18 May 2020 | S.S.I. 2020/67 |
| Section 34 | 18 November 2020 | S.S.I. 2020/294 |
| Section 37 | 18 November 2020 | S.S.I. 2020/294 |
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