{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ancient-monuments-and-archaeological-areas-act-1979/part-I/paragraph-9FA",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ancient-monuments-and-archaeological-areas-act-1979/part-I/paragraph-9FA.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/46",
  "legislation_title": "Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ancient-monuments-and-archaeological-areas-act-1979",
  "path": "part/I/paragraph/9FA",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9FA",
  "heading": "Enforcement by the Scottish Ministers",
  "text": "(1) If it appears to the Scottish Ministers that it is expedient that a scheduled monument enforcement notice should be served in respect of any monument or land in, on or under which there is a scheduled monument, they may serve such a notice under section 9A.\n(2) A scheduled monument enforcement notice served by the Scottish Ministers has the same effect as if it had been served by Historic Environment Scotland.\n(3) The Scottish Ministers must not serve such a notice without consulting Historic Environment Scotland.\n(4) The provisions of this Act relating to scheduled monument enforcement notices apply, so far as relevant, to a scheduled monument enforcement notice served by the Scottish Ministers as they apply to a scheduled monument enforcement notice served by Historic Environment Scotland, but with the substitution for any reference to Historic Environment Scotland of a reference to the Scottish Ministers, and any other necessary modifications.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 9A-9O and cross-heading inserted (S.) (30.6.2011 for specified purposes, 1.12.2011 in so far as not already in force) by Historic Environment (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 3), ss. 6(1), 33(2); S.S.I. 2011/174, art. 2, Sch.; S.S.I. 2011/372, art. 2, Sch. (with savings in S.S.I. 2015/239, arts. 1(1), 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 9FA inserted (27.2.2015 for specified purposes, 1.10.2015 in so far as not already in force) by Historic Environment Scotland Act 2014 (asp 19), s. 31(2), sch. 2 para. 22 (with ss. 29, 30); S.S.I. 2015/31, art. 2, sch.; S.S.I. 2015/196, art. 2, sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/46/part/I/paragraph/9FA",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:17:08.913274+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}