{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-development-planning-scotland-regulations-2008/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-development-planning-scotland-regulations-2008/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2008/426",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Development Planning) (Scotland) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-development-planning-scotland-regulations-2008",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING\nMade 18th December 2008\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 19th December 2008\nComing into force 28th February 2009\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 7(2)(a), 8(1)(b), 9(4)(c), 9(6), 10(1)(d), 10(7), 12(3), 12A(8), 15(3) and (4)(a), 16(2)(b), 17(4)(b) and (6), 18(1)(d) and (e), (4)(b) and (5), 19(5) and (10)(b), 19A(8), 20B(7), 21(7), 22(2), 23A(1), 23D and 275 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 and all other powers enabling them to do so.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1997 c. 8. The enabling powers contained in Part 2 of the Act were inserted by section 2 of the Planning etc. (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 17). Section 275 was relevantly amended by section 54(16) of that Act. The functions of the Secretary of State under the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2008/426/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:04:02.356428+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."
}