# The Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1992

S.I. 1992/1763 · made 16 July 1992

This Order amends the Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) (Scotland) Regulations 1984 by substituting a new definition for “advertisement ”, which takes account of the amendments contained in section 55 of the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 to the definition of advertisement contained in section 275(1) of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972.

Made under: Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972 (repealed 27.5.1997)

## Introductory text

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING, SCOTLAND
Made 16th July 1992
Laid before Parliament 20th July 1992
Coming into force 10th August 1992
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 61, 101 and 165 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972() and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

## 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 10th August 1992.

## 2 Amendment of the Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) (Scotland) Regulations 1984

In place of the definition of “advertisement” contained in regulation 2(1) of the Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) (Scotland) Regulations 1984() the following shall be substituted:—
““advertisement” means any word, letter, model, sign, placard, board, notice, awning, blind, device or representation, whether illuminated or not, in the nature of, and employed wholly or partly for the purposes of, advertisement, announcement or direction (excluding any such thing employed wholly as a memorial or as a railway signal), and includes any hoarding or similar structure or any balloon used or designed or adapted for use and anything else used, or designed or adapted principally for use, for the display of advertisements, and references to the display of advertisements shall be construed accordingly.”.

## Signature

Allan Stewart
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Scottish Office
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
16th July 1992

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) (Scotland) Regulations 1984 by substituting a new definition for “advertisement ”, which takes account of the amendments contained in section 55 of the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 to the definition of advertisement contained in section 275(1) of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972.

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