{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-scotland-act-1997/section-4ZE",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-scotland-act-1997/section-4ZE.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/4ZE",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4ZE",
  "heading": "Guidance for regional spatial strategies",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers may issue guidance in relation to the preparation, adoption, review and content of regional spatial strategies.\n(2) A planning authority must have regard to any guidance issued under subsection (1) when preparing or adopting a regional spatial strategy.\n(3) Before issuing guidance under this section, the Scottish Ministers must consult—\n(a) each planning authority, and\n(b) such other persons as they consider appropriate (if any).\n(4) The Scottish Ministers must make guidance issued under subsection (1) publicly available.\n(5) The power under subsection (1) to issue guidance includes the power to—\n(a) issue guidance that varies guidance issued under that subsection, and\n(b) revoke guidance issued under that subsection.",
  "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": "Ss. 4ZA-4ZE inserted (8.11.2019 for specified purposes) by Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13), ss. 5(2), 63(2); S.S.I. 2019/314, reg. 2, sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/8/section/4ZE",
    "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."
}