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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (Commencement No. 6 and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2021 and come into force on 1 April 2021.
(2) In these Regulations—
 “the Act” means the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019, and
 “the 1997 Act” means the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 .
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The day appointed for the coming into force of section 17 (meaning of development: use of dwellinghouse for short-term lets) of the Act, in so far as not already in force, is 1 April 2021.
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Subject to regulation 4, the day appointed for the coming into force of section 18(3) (pre-application consultation) of the Act is   1 October 2022.
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(1) Section 35B(3) (pre-application consultation: compliance) of the 1997 Act applies, as amended by section 18(3) of the Act, in relation to the submission of a relevant application with the modification that the maximum period of 18 months which is to elapse before the relevant application is submitted is to be treated as a reference to the period of 18 months beginning on 1 October 2022 rather than to the period of 18 months after the giving of the proposal of application notice.
(2) In this regulation,  “relevant application” means an application for planning permission in respect of which the prospective applicant has given a proposal of application notice to the planning authority before 1 October 2022.
AILEEN CAMPBELL

A member of the Scottish Government

St Andrew's House,

Edinburgh
