{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-scotland-act-1997/section-23A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-scotland-act-1997/section-23A.json",
  "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": "section/23A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23A",
  "heading": "Regulations under this Part",
  "text": "(1) Regulations under this Part may extend throughout Scotland or to specified areas only and may make different provision for different cases.\n(2) Subject to the previous provisions of this Part and to any such regulations, the Scottish Ministers may give directions to any planning authority ..., or to planning authorities ... generally for—\n(a) formulating the procedure for the carrying out of functions under this Part, or\n(b) requiring them to give the Scottish Ministers such information as the Scottish Ministers may require for carrying out functions under this Part.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 2 substituted (19.5.2008 for specified purposes, 25.6.2008 for specified purposes, 28.2.2009 in so far as not already in force) by Planning etc. (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 17), ss. 2, 59(2) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.S.I. 2008/165, arts. 1, 2 and S.S.I. 2008/427, arts. 1(1), 2-5); S.S.I. 2008/164, art. 2(1)(2), sch.; S.S.I. 2009/70, art. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 23A(2) repealed (12.2.2023) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), s. 63(2), sch. 2 para. 1(6)(a); S.S.I. 2023/10, reg. 3(2)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 23A(2) repealed (12.2.2023) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), s. 63(2), sch. 2 para. 1(6)(b); S.S.I. 2023/10, reg. 3(2)(e)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/8/section/23A",
    "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."
}