This Order amends the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Order 1992. Article 2 amends Class 72C. This Class was inserted by the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Coronavirus) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2020. Class 72C allows local authorities and certain health service bodies to carry out development for the purposes of —
a) preventing an emergency,
b) reducing, controlling or mitigating the effects of an emergency, or
c) taking other action in connection with an emergency.
For these purposes, an emergency is an event or situation which threatens serious damage to human welfare in a place in the United Kingdom.
Source: HMSO.