{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-noise-scotland-regulations-2006/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-noise-scotland-regulations-2006/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2006/465",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Noise (Scotland) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-noise-scotland-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Co operation with external competent authorities",
  "text": "(1) A competent authority under these Regulations (which shall include the Scottish Ministers for the purposes of their functions under Part 5 of these Regulations) shall co operate with an external competent authority–\n(a) when necessary in order to meet its obligations under these Regulations; ...\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) In this Part, “external competent authority” means a competent authority specified in relation to England, Northern Ireland or Wales in accordance with—\n(a) the Environmental Noise (England) Regulations 2006,\n(b) the Environmental Noise Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006, or\n(c) the Environmental Noise (Wales) Regulations 2006.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 20(1)(a) omitted (1.6.2022) by virtue of The Environment and Trade in Animals and Related Products (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/138), regs. 1, 8(2)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 20(1)(b) omitted (1.6.2022) by virtue of The Environment and Trade in Animals and Related Products (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/138), regs. 1, 8(2)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 20(2) substituted (1.6.2022) by The Environment and Trade in Animals and Related Products (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/138), regs. 1, 8(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 20 in force at 5.10.2006, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/465/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:17:56.804202+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."
}