{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/historic-environment-scotland-act-2014/schedule-4/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/historic-environment-scotland-act-2014/schedule-4/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2014/19",
  "legislation_title": "Historic Environment Scotland Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/historic-environment-scotland-act-2014",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 84 (failure to comply with duties) after subsection (3) insert—\n“(3A) In relation to a Historic MPA if, in the opinion of Historic Environment Scotland, a public authority has failed—\n(a) to act in accordance with advice or guidance given by Historic Environment Scotland under section 80A,\n(b) to comply with any of its duties under section 82(2) or 83(3) or (4),\nHistoric Environment Scotland may request from the authority an explanation in writing for the failure.\n(3B) Historic Environment Scotland must send a copy of a request by it under subsection (3A) to the Scottish Ministers.\n(3C) On receiving a request under subsection (3A), the public authority must—\n(a) provide Historic Environment Scotland with the requested explanation for the failure,\n(b) send a copy of the explanation to the Scottish Ministers.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 5 in force at 1.10.2015 by S.S.I. 2015/196, art. 2, Sch. (with transitional provisions and savings in S.S.I. 2015/239, arts. 2-19)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2014/19/schedule/4/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:55.426108+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."
}