The Revenue Scotland and Tax Powers Act 2014 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2015

Made: 11th March 2015

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 13th March 2015

Coming into force: 1st April 2015

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the power conferred by section 260(2) of the Revenue Scotland and Tax Powers Act 2014[^f00001].

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Revenue Scotland and Tax Powers Act 2014 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2015 and comes into force on 1st April 2015.

Day appointed

2

• (1) Subject to paragraph (2), the day appointed for the coming into force of the Revenue Scotland and Tax Powers Act 2014, insofar as not already in force, is 1st April 2015.

• (2) The day appointed for the coming into force of section 41 of that Act (procedural steps where judicial review petition remitted to the Upper Tax Tribunal for Scotland) is the day on which section 89 of the Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (judicial review)[^f00002] comes into force.

Signed

JOHN SWINNEY — A member of the Scottish Government — 11th March 2015

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order brings into force the remaining provisions of the Revenue Scotland and Tax Powers Act 2014 on 1st April 2015, including the constitution on that date of the Scottish Tax Tribunals. Section 41 (procedural steps where judicial review petition remitted to the Upper Tax Tribunal for Scotland) will come into force on a later date when section 89 of the Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (judicial review) comes into force.

The Revenue Scotland and Tax Powers Act 2014 received Royal Assent on 24th September 2014. Sections 254, 255, 257, 258, 259, 260 and 261 of, and paragraphs 9(12) and 10(14) of schedule 4 to, that Act came into force on 25th September 2014.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2014 asp 16. Paragraph 9 of Part 3 of schedule 4 to the Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 18) repeals section 58 and amends section 59.

[^f00002]: 2014 asp 18.