The Public Services Reform (Planning) (Pre-application consultation) (Scotland) Order 2013

Made: 29th January 2013

Coming into force: 2nd February 2013

In accordance with section25(2)(c) of the Act, a draft of this Order has been approved by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

Citation and commencement

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This Order may be cited as the Public Services Reform (Planning) (Pre-application consultation) (Scotland) Order 2013 and comes into force on 2nd February 2013.

Amendment of section35A of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997

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• (1) The Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997[^f00002] is amended in accordance with paragraph(2).

• (2) In section 35A (pre-application consultation: preliminary) after subsection (1) insert—

(1A) Subsection (1) does not apply to an application for planning permission to which section 42 applies.

Signed

DEREK MACKAY — Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers — 29th January 2013

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order amends section35A of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 to provide that applications made under section42 of that Act are not subject to the requirements for pre-application consultation contained in section35B of that Act.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2010 asp 8. Section 25 has been modified by paragraph 5 of schedule 3 to the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 10).

[^f00002]: 1997 c.8. Section 35A was inserted by section 11 of the Planning etc. (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 17).