{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-development-agency-act-1975/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-development-agency-act-1975/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1975/69",
  "legislation_title": "Scottish Development Agency Act 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-development-agency-act-1975",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Transfer of property, rights and liabilities of certain bodies to Agency.",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Industrial Estates Corporation shall be dissolved on the date of the commencement of this section; and all interests in property, heritable or moveable, held by the Corporation immediately before that date, shall on that date be transferred to and vest in the Agency, and all rights, liabilities and obligations of the Corporation, to which the Corporation were entitled or subject immediately before that date, shall on that date be transferred to the Agency.\n(2) For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that planning permission shall be deemed to have been granted under section 26 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972 in respect of any development initiated by the Scottish Industrial Estates Corporation before the date of the commencement of this section.\n(3) All land in Scotland held by or on behalf of the Secretary of State under any of the enactments mentioned in subsection (4) below at the date of the commencement of this section other than land held in security of a loan shall, on that date, be transferred to and vest in the Agency, and all rights, liabilities and obligations of the Secretary of State relating to the property so transferred immediately before that date shall, on that date, be transferred to the Agency.\n(4) The enactments referred to in subsection (3) above are the Distribution of Industry Acts 1945 to 1958, the Local Employment Acts 1960 to 1971 and the Local Employment Act 1972.\n(5) The Small Industries Council for Rural Areas of Scotland shall be dissolved on a date specified by order by the Secretary of State, and all interests in property, heritable or moveable, held by that Council immediately before that date shall, on that date, be transferred to and vest in the Agency; and all rights, liabilities and obligations to which the Council were entitled or subject immediately before that date shall, on that date, be transferred to the Agency.\n(6) Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect in relation to the members and staff of the Scottish Industrial Estates Corporation and of the Small Industries Council for Rural Areas of Scotland (in that Schedule respectively referred to as “the Corporation” and “the Council”).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act except ss. 1, 20, 28, and paras. 1 to 6, 11 to 14, 16 and 17 of Sch. 1 repealed (E.W.S.) (1.4.1991) by 1990 c. 35, ss. 22(1), 23(4), 38(2), Sch. 3, Sch. 5 Pt. II (with Sch. 3 para. 3); Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990 Transfer Dates Order dated 1.3.1991."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1972 c. 52."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1972 c. 5."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/69/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:35:59.439326+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."
}