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Land Tenure Reform (Scotland) Act 1974 (c.38)

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Land Tenure Reform (Scotland) Act 1974

1974 CHAPTER 38

Contents

Go to Preamble

  1. Part I

    Prohibition of Future Feuduties, and Redemption of Feuduties, Etc

    1. 1. Prohibition of new feuduties

    2. 2. Prohibition of new ground annuals and other periodical payments from land

    3. 3. Charters of novodamus, etc

    4. 4. Right to redeem feuduty, ground annual, etc. on a term day

    5. 5. Redemption by law of feuduty, ground annual, etc. on transfer of land for valuable consideration

    6. 6. Redemption by law of feuduty, ground annual, etc. on acquisition of land by authority possessing compulsory purchase powers

    7. 7. Transitional and supplementary provisions relative to Part I

  2. Part II

    Limitations on Residential Use of Property Let Under Future Long Leases

    1. 8. Property let under future long lease, etc. not to be used as private dwelling-house

    2. 9. Consequences of use as dwelling-house of property subject to long lease

    3. 10. Modification of s. 9 where lease subject to sub-lease or heritable security

  3. Part III

    Miscellaneous

    1. 11. Right to redeem heritable security after 20 years where security subjects used as private dwelling-house

    2. 12. Restriction to 20 years of period within which certain rights of redemption and reversion are exercisable

    3. 13.Restriction on rights of preemption to apply in every case

    4. 14.Amendment of s.17 of Crofters (Scotland) Act 1955

    5. 15. Limitation of right of irritancy for non-payment of feuduty. 1597 c. 240(S.)

    6. 16. No casualties in future leases

    7. 17. Interposed leases

    8. 18. Amendment of law relating to registration of leases

    9. 19.Recording of extract orders of Land Tribunal

    10. 20. Abolition of registration and recording, etc., of documents in Office of Chancery

  4. Part IV

    General

    1. 21. Provisions for contracting out to be void

    2. 22. Application to Crown

    3. 23. Interpretation and repeals

    4. 24. Short title, commencement and extent

  5. SCHEDULE 1

    Forms Prescribed under section 4

  6. SCHEDULE 2

    Form of Notice Prescribed under Section 5

  7. SCHEDULE 3

    Form of Notice Prescribed under Section 6

  8. SCHEDULE 4

    Statement Referred to in Section 7(1)(b)

  9. SCHEDULE 5

    Form of Notice Prescribed under Section 9

  10. SCHEDULE 6

    Amendment of Law Relating to Registration of Leases

  11. SCHEDULE 7

    Repeals

An Act to provide, as respects Scotland, for the prohibition of new feuduties and other periodical payments from land; for the right to redeem feuduties and other such perpetual payments on a term day; for the redemption by law of feuduties and other such payments on transfer of land; for limitations on the residential use of property subject to long lease and other rights of occupancy; for the variation of heritable securities in the event of residential use of the security subjects; for restrictions on certain rights of reversion, redemption and pre-emption; for limitation of the right to raise an action of irritancy for non-payment of feuduty; for abolition of the right to create leasehold casualties; for the recognition of interposed leases; for amendment of the law relating to registration of leases; for abolition of the registration and recording of documents in the Office of Chancery; and for related matters.

[31st July 1974]

Annotations:

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3

Commencement Information

I1Act wholly in force at 1.9.1974 see s. 24(2)