{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-scotland-act-1997/schedule-5/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/8",
  "legislation_title": "Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-scotland-act-1997",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A simplified planning zone direction is—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) if the request was for the alteration of a scheme, a direction to alter it in such manner as the Scottish Ministers consider appropriate,\nand ... requires the planning authority to take all the steps required by this Schedule for the adoption of proposals for the ... alteration of a scheme.\n(2) A direction under sub-paragraph (1)(b) may extend—\n(a) to the land specified in the request to the authority,\n(b) to any part of the land so specified, or\n(c) to land which includes the whole or part of the land so specified,\nand accordingly may direct that land shall be added to or excluded from an existing simplified planning zone.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 4(1)(a) repealed (1.4.2024) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), ss. 16(4)(f)(i), 63(2); S.S.I. 2024/79, reg. 2(1)(2)(c) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 4(1)(b) substituted (1.4.2024) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), ss. 16(4)(f)(ii), 63(2); S.S.I. 2024/79, reg. 2(1)(2)(c) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 4(1) repealed (1.4.2024) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), ss. 16(4)(f)(iii), 63(2); S.S.I. 2024/79, reg. 2(1)(2)(c) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 4(1) repealed (1.4.2024) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), ss. 16(4)(f)(iv), 63(2); S.S.I. 2024/79, reg. 2(1)(2)(c) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 4(2) substituted (1.4.2024) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), ss. 16(4)(g), 63(2); S.S.I. 2024/79, reg. 2(1)(2)(c) (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/8/schedule/5/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:28:15.132338+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."
}