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Paragraph 2

Scotland

(1)

Regulations under this Act may provide that an application for listed building consent, or an appeal against the refusal of such an application, shall not be entertained unless it is accompanied by a certificate in the prescribed form and corresponding to one F1prescribed under section 24 of this Act and any such regulations may—

(a)

include requirements corresponding to sections 24 and 26(3) and (3A)of this Act; and

(b)

make provision as to who, in the case of any building, is to be treated as the owner for the purposes of any provision of the regulations made by virtue of this sub-paragraph.

(2)

If any person issues a certificate which purports to comply with the requirements of regulations made by virtue of this paragraph and which contains a statement which he knows to be false or misleading in a material particular, or recklessly issues a certificate which purports to comply with those requirements and which contains a statement which is false or misleading in a material particular, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding F2level 3 on the standard scale.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in Sch. 10, para. 2(1) substituted (3.2.1995) by Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34, SIF 123:2), s. 61, Sch. 13 para. 42(a)(b) (with s. 84(5)); S.I. 1994/3292, art. 3

F2

Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21), ss. 289F, 289G (as inserted by Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48), s. 54)

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1

Act repealed (27.5.1997) by 1997 c. 11, ss. 3, 6(2), Sch. 1 Pt. I (with s. 5, Sch. 3)