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Is that fair enough?Members indicated agreement. New paragraph 3A(8) of schedule 2 to the 1997 act restricts the period of the scheme to five years and new paragraph 3A(9) gives the Scottish ministers a power to extend or further extend the life of the new scheme beyond five y...
Those communities have received bad news, but, in the past year, Shetland and elsewhere have been given the good news that, after decades of decline, the population of the Highlands and Islands is increasing.
There will be a bit of work to do on how best to manage the first project to go through the new procedure, but that is the essential core of making a more efficient process that delivers the time savings that we are seeking and provides a better process for the promoter and the Government in seeking to meet their tra...
For the most part, those are new powers for agencies to consider in the light of local strategies, local circumstances and the available alternatives, rather than new duties imposed on the agencies.