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Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997

Write the words of this act the way you think they should read. Solon shows your change as a redline against the published text and pins it to that exact text, so it can never be applied to wording you did not see.

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What to do with it
As published

275B Directions

(1) Having given a direction in exercise of a power conferred by virtue of this Act, the Scottish Ministers are to publish— (a) the direction, and (b) their reasons for giving it. (2) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to the following— (a) a direction under section 265A, (b) a direction given before 1 December 2019, (c) a direction given in the form of a regulation or order (see, for example, section 173(1)). (3) In this section, “publish” includes, without prejudice to that expression's generality, publish by electronic means (as for example by means of the internet).

Your change, as a redline

275B Directions

(1) Having given a direction in exercise of a power conferred by virtue of this Act, the Scottish Ministers are to publish— (a) the direction, and (b) their reasons for giving it. (2) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to the following— (a) a direction under section 265A, (b) a direction given before 1 December 2019, (c) a direction given in the form of a regulation or order (see, for example, section 173(1)). (3) In this section, “publish” includes, without prejudice to that expression's generality, publish by electronic means (as for example by means of the internet).

One line that says what changes, such as "Halve the dog tax".

Who it helps, what it costs, what it fixes. It is what persuades people to support it.

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