The Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (Commencement No. 9 and Saving and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022

Made: 15th September 2022

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 20th September 2022

Coming into force: 1st October 2022

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[^f00001].

Citation, commencement and interpretation

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (Commencement No. 9 and Saving and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022 and come into force on 1 October 2022.

• (2) In these Regulations—

• “the Act” means the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019,

• “the 1997 Act” means the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997[^f00002],

• “planning permission” and “completion notice” have the same meaning as in the 1997 Act.

Appointed day

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• (1) Subject to paragraph (3) and regulation 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 1 October 2022.

• (2) The provisions are—

• (a) section 22 (declining to determine applications),

• (b) section 32 (duration of planning permission),

• (c) section 33 (completion notices),

• (d) section 38 (declining to determine an application: further provision),

• (e) section 62 (minor and consequential amendments and repeals),

• (f) paragraph 6 of schedule 2 (duration of planning permission).

• (3) Section 62 of the Act is commenced only for the purposes of the commencement of paragraph 6 of schedule 2 of the Act.

Saving and transitional provisions

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• (1) The provisions of section 39 (declining to determine an application) of the 1997 Act continue to apply as they had effect immediately before 1 October 2022 in relation to an application for planning permission received by the planning authority before that date.

• (2) The following provisions of the 1997 Act continue to apply as they had effect immediately before 1 October 2022 in relation to planning permission granted (including planning permission granted by order under section 71 of the 1997 Act), or deemed to be granted, before that date—

• (a) section 41 (conditional grant of planning permission),

• (b) section 58[^f00003] (duration of planning permission),

• (c) section 59[^f00004] (planning permission in principle),

• (d) section 60[^f00005] (provisions supplementary to sections 58 and 59),

• (e) section 71[^f00006] (orders requiring discontinuance of use or alteration or removal of buildings or works).

• (3) The provisions of sections 61 (termination of planning permission by reference to time limit: completion notices), 62 (effect of completion notice) and 237 (validity of development plans and certain orders, decisions and directions) of the 1997 Act continue to apply as they had effect immediately before 1 October 2022 in relation to a completion notice served before that date.

• (4) The provisions of section 62A (objection to completion notice) of the 1997 Act as inserted by section 33(4) of the Act only apply in respect of a completion notice served on or after 1October 2022.

• (5) The provisions of sections 58, 59 and 88[^f00007] (circumstances in which purchase notices may be served) of the 1997 Act continue to apply as they had effect immediately before 1 October 2022 for the purposes of any claim arising before that date in the circumstances mentioned in section 88(1) of the 1997 Act.

• (6) The provisions of sections 58, 59 and 232[^f00008] (right to compensation in respect of certain decisions and orders) of the 1997 Act continue to apply as they had effect immediately before 1October 2022 for the purposes of entitlement to compensation under section 232 of the 1997 Act in respect of a decision to grant planning permission made in accordance with section 218 of the 1997 Act before that date.

Signed

TOM ARTHUR — Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers — 15th September 2022

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations bring sections 22, 32, 33 and 38 of, and paragraph 6 of schedule 2 of, the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (“the Act”) fully into force on 1 October 2022. They also bring section 62 into force on that date for the limited purposes of the commencement of paragraph 6 of schedule 2 of the Act. These provisions are commenced subject to the saving and transitional provisions 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.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2019 asp 13.

[^f00002]: 1997 c. 8.

[^f00003]: Section 58 was relevantly amended by section 20 of the Planning etc. (Scotland) Act 2006 asp 17 (“the 2006 Act”).

[^f00004]: Section 59 was relevantly amended by section 21 of the 2006 Act.

[^f00005]: Section 60 was relevantly amended by section 22 of the 2006 Act.

[^f00006]: Section 71 was relevantly amended by section 22 of the 2006 Act.

[^f00007]: Section 88 was relevantly amended by section 22 of the 2006 Act.

[^f00008]: Section 232 was relevantly amended by section 22 of the 2006 Act.