New Clause 29 - Designated Scottish sites: access

Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 6:30 pm on 20th January 2005.

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'(1) Section 1 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 2) (access rights) does not apply to land in respect of which a designation order is in force.

(2) The Secretary of State may take such steps as he considers appropriate to inform the public of the effect of any designation order made by him.

(3) The Scottish Ministers may take such steps as they consider appropriate to inform the public of the effect of any designation order made by them.

(4) The steps referred to in subsections (2) and (3) may include, in particular, displaying notices on or near the site to which the order in question relates.

(5) But the Secretary of State or (as the case may be) the Scottish Ministers may only—

(a) display any such notice, or

(b) take any other steps under subsection (2) or (3),

in or on any building or land, if the appropriate person consents.

(6) The ''appropriate person'' is—

(a) a person appearing to the Secretary of State or (as the case may be) to the Scottish Ministers to have a sufficient interest in the building or land to consent to the notice being displayed or the steps being taken, or

(b) a person acting on behalf of such a person. 

(7) In this section a ''designation order'' means an order under section [Corresponding Scottish offence].'—[Caroline Flint.]

Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill.