Explanatory note

These Regulations bring sections 16 and 50 of the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (“the Act”) fully into force on 1 April 2024. Section 62 of the Act is commenced on 1 April 2024 for the limited purpose of bringing paragraph 9 of schedule 2 into force. Sections 12 and 15 and paragraph 9 of schedule 2 of the Act are brought into force on that date for the purpose of enabling regulations to be made under the new sections 3CC(3) and (4) and 20AA(5) of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) act 1997 (“the 1997 Act”) and under new schedule 5A of the 1997 Act (inserted respectively by section 12 and section 15(3) of the Act) and of bringing paragraph 5 of that new schedule 5A fully into force.

Regulation 3 contains saving provisions so that the provisions of the 1997 Act relating to the making of a simplified planning zone scheme continue to apply as they had effect before 1 April 2024 where notice of the proposed simplified planning zone scheme was published by the planning authority before that date.

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.