{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/roads-scotland-act-1984/section-143A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/roads-scotland-act-1984/section-143A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/54",
  "legislation_title": "Roads (Scotland) Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/roads-scotland-act-1984",
  "path": "section/143A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "143A",
  "heading": "“Developments of national significance” etc.: special procedure",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subsection (4), subsection (3) applies to any —\n(a) ... order under section 5 of this Act directing that a road proposed to be constructed shall be a trunk road and the construction of the road would constitute a national development;\n(b) ... scheme under section 7 of this Act (or any instrument confirming such a scheme) which authorises the carrying out of work which would constitute a national development; or\n(c) subordinate legislation which is the subject of a direction by the Scottish Ministers under this paragraph.\n(2) In subsection (1) above, the references to a “national development” are to any development (within the meaning of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997) for the time being designated under section 3A(4)(b) of that Act as a national development.\n(3) The legislation is subject to the affirmative procedure.\n(4) Unless the Scottish Ministers otherwise direct, any subordinate legislation which revokes, amends or re-enacts any legislation which was subject to the affirmative procedure by virtue of subsection (3) above is not subject to the procedure in that subsection.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 143A inserted (28.12.2007) by Transport and Works (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 8), ss. 24(2), 30(4); S.S.I. 2007/516, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 143A(1) substituted (11.11.2011) by The Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential, Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order2011 (S.S.I. 2011/396), arts. 1, 13(a)(i) (with art. 16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 143A(1)(a) omitted (11.11.2011) by virtue of The Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential, Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order2011 (S.S.I. 2011/396), arts. 1, 13(a)(ii) (with art. 16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 143A(1)(b) omitted (11.11.2011) by virtue of The Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential, Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order2011 (S.S.I. 2011/396), arts. 1, 13(a)(iii)(aa) (with art. 16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 143A(1)(b) inserted (11.11.2011) by The Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential, Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order2011 (S.S.I. 2011/396), arts. 1, 13(a)(iii)(bb) (with art. 16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 143A(1)(c) inserted (11.11.2011) by The Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential, Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order2011 (S.S.I. 2011/396), arts. 1, 13(a)(iv) (with art. 16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 143A(3) substituted (11.11.2011) by The Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential, Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order2011 (S.S.I. 2011/396), arts. 1, 13(b) (with art. 16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 143A(4) substituted (11.11.2011) by The Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential, Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order2011 (S.S.I. 2011/396), arts. 1, 13(c)(i) (with arts. 16, 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 143A(4) substituted (11.11.2011) by The Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential, Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order2011 (S.S.I. 2011/396), arts. 1, 13(c)(ii) (with arts. 16, 17)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/54/section/143A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:01:06.913643+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."
}