{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-development-management-procedure-scotland-regulations-2013/regulation-7A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-development-management-procedure-scotland-regulations-2013/regulation-7A.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2013/155",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-development-management-procedure-scotland-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/7A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7A",
  "heading": "Temporary relaxation of pre-application consultation requirements during Coronavirus emergency period",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies in relation to an application for planning permission submitted—\n(a) either—\n(i) during the emergency period, or\n(ii) within the period of 6 months immediately following the expiry of the emergency period, and\n(b) in respect of which a proposal of application notice is given to the planning authority before, or during, the emergency period.\n(2) Where this regulation applies in relation to an application for planning permission, regulation 7 applies in relation to that application—\n(a) as if paragraphs (2)(a) and (b)(iii) and (3) were omitted, ...\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) For the purposes of this regulation, the “emergency period” is the period beginning on 24 April 2020 and ending at the end of 30 September 2022 .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 7A inserted (24.4.2020) by The Town and Country Planning (Miscellaneous Temporary Modifications) (Coronavirus) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/124), regs. 1, 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 7A(2)(b) and word omitted (29.9.2021) by virtue of The Town and Country Planning (Miscellaneous Temporary Modifications) (Coronavirus) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/292), regs. 1(1), 7(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7A(3) substituted (29.9.2021) by The Town and Country Planning (Miscellaneous Temporary Modifications) (Coronavirus) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/292), regs. 1(1), 7(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7A(3) substituted (30.3.2022) by The Town and Country Planning (Miscellaneous Temporary Modifications) (Coronavirus) (Scotland) Regulations 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/66), regs. 1(1), 7(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2013/155/regulation/7A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:39:40.790776+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."
}