{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-masterplan-consent-area-scheme-environmental-impact-assessment-scotland-regulations-2024/regulation-31",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2024/9780111060933",
  "legislation_title": "The Masterplan Consent Area Scheme (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-masterplan-consent-area-scheme-environmental-impact-assessment-scotland-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/31",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Competent authority – avoidance of conflict of interest",
  "text": "(1) The planning authority or the Scottish Ministers, as the case may be, are to perform their duties arising under these Regulations in an objective manner and so as not to find themselves in a situation giving rise to a conflict of interest.\n(2) Where the planning authority or the Scottish Ministers, as the case may be, are to consider the making of a masterplan consent area scheme which authorises EIA development, they are to implement within their organisation of administrative competences an appropriate separation between conflicting functions when performing their duties under these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2024/9780111060933/regulation/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:29:04.647794+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."
}