The Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (Competition) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1997

• Citation: S.I. 1997/1439
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (Competition) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 30th June 1997.

(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations ” means the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (Competition) (Scotland) Regulations 1995 .

Section 2 Amendment of principal Regulations

For regulations 7 and 8 of the principal Regulations, there shall be substituted the following regulation:–

(7) A local authority or development body may not, unless they have first complied with the conditions specified in section 9(4) of the Act, as well as with the terms of section 9(2), undertake functional work (other than emergency work) which is a job involving works of construction where the estimated cost of that job, which is attributable to works of construction, exceeds £500,000.

Section 3 Amendment of principal Regulations

In regulation 9 of the principal Regulations–

(a) in paragraph (2B)(c)–

(i) for the words “a relevant date and on or before the next relevant date”, there shall be substituted the words “the sixteenth day of a particular month (“the relevant date”) and on or before the sixteenth day of the next month”; and

(ii) for the words “first of those relevant dates”, there shall be substituted the words “relevant date”;

(b) paragraph (2C) shall be deleted; and

(c) in paragraph (3)(a), the words “or which is a job to which regulation 7(b) above applies” shall be deleted.

Section 4 Revocations

The following provisions are hereby revoked:–

(a) the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (Competition) (Scotland) Regulations 1996 ; and

(b) in the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (Competition) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1996 , regulations 2, 3 and 4(b)(ii).