The Transport (Scotland) Act 2019 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2019

Type Scottish-Statutory-Instrument
Publication 2019-12-18
State In force
Jurisdiction Scotland
Department Queen's Printer for Scotland
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Made: 18th December 2019

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 19th December 2019

Coming into force: 15th January 2020

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 130(2) of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2019[^f00001].

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Transport (Scotland) Act 2019 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2019 and come into force on 15 January 2020.

Appointed Day

2

The day appointed for the coming into force of Part 1 (national transport strategy) and section 25 (Ministers’ grant-making powers) of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2019 is 15 January 2020.

Signed

MICHAEL MATHESON — A member of the Scottish Government — 18th December 2019

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations bring Part 1 and section 25 of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2019 (“the Act”) into force on 15 January 2020. Part 1 of the Act concerns the preparation, consultation, publication, review and reporting of the national transport strategy. Section 25 provides the Scottish Ministers with grant making powers for the purposes of supporting a person’s costs in making alternations to a vehicle to reduce its emissions and for the purposes of supporting a local authority to meet its costs in determining, making, operating or revoking a low emission zone scheme under Part 2 of the Act.

The Bill for the Act received Royal Assent on 15 November 2019. Sections 128 to 131 came into force on the following day.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2019 asp 17.

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