{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-electronic-communications-scotland-order-2004/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-electronic-communications-scotland-order-2004/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2004/332",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Electronic Communications) (Scotland) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-electronic-communications-scotland-order-2004",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Insertion of definitions and interpretation provisions",
  "text": "(1) Section 277 of the 1997 Act (interpretation) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1), insert the following definitions:–\n““address”, in relation to electronic communications, means any number or address used for the purposes of such communications;\n“electronic communication” has the same meaning as in the Electronic Communications Act 2000 (c. 7);”.\n(3) After subsection (4), insert–\n“(4A) Where an electronic communication is used for the purpose of serving on, or giving to, a person any notice or other document for the purposes of this Act, and the communication is received by that person–\n(a) at any time before the end of a day which is a working day, it shall be deemed to have been received on that day; or\n(b) at any time during a day which is not a working day, it shall be deemed to be received on the next working day,\nand in this subsection “working day” means a day which is not a Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Eve, a bank holiday in Scotland under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971, a day appointed for public thanksgiving or mourning or any other day which is a local or public holiday in an area in which the electronic communication is received.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/332/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:30:23.074728+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."
}