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Crofting Reform (Scotland) Act 1976 (c.21)

This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.

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Crofting Reform (Scotland) Act 1976

1976 CHAPTER 21

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  17. 17.Extension of powers of Land Court

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  24. SCHEDULE 1

    Amendment of Enactments Consequential on Section 11

  25. SCHEDULE 2

    Minor and Consequential Amendments

  26. SCHEDULE 3

An Act to confer new rights on crofters and cottars to acquire subjects tenanted or occupied by them; to confer rights on crofters to share in the value of land resumed by landlords or taken possession of compulsorily; to protect the interests of crofters and cottars from planning blight; to make further provision as to financial assistance for crofters, cottars and certain owner-occupiers of certain land; to make further provision as to the removal of land from crofting tenure; to amend the law with respect to common grazings; to extend the powers of the Scottish Land Court; to make provision for pensions and compensation for members of the Crofters Commission; and for connected purposes.

[10th June 1976]F1

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1Whole Act except s. 17 repealed (5.1.1994) by 1993 c. 44, ss. 63(2), 64(2), Sch. 7 Pt. II (with s. 30(5), Sch. 6 para. 4).

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 Royal Assent.

F11. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F1Whole Act except section 17 repealed (5.1.1994) by 1993 c. 44, ss. 63(2), 64(2), Sch. 7 Pt.II (with s. 30(5), Sch. 6 para. 4).

F12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Amendments (Textual)

F1Whole Act except section 17 repealed (5.1.1994) by 1993 c. 44, ss. 63(2), 64(2), Sch. 7 Pt.II (with s. 30(5), Sch. 6 para. 4).

F13. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F1Whole Act except section 17 repealed (5.1.1994) by 1993 c. 44, ss. 63(2), 64(2), Sch. 7 Pt.II (with s. 30(5), Sch. 6 para. 4).

F14. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Annotations:

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F1Whole Act except section 17 repealed (5.1.1994) by 1993 c. 44, ss. 63(2), 64(2), Sch. 7 Pt.II (with s. 30(5), Sch. 6 para. 4).

F15. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F1Whole Act except section 17 repealed (5.1.1994) by 1993 c. 44, ss. 63(2), 64(2), Sch. 7 Pt.II (with s. 30(5), Sch. 6 para. 4).

F16. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F1Whole Act except section 17 repealed (5.1.1994) by 1993 c. 44, ss. 63(2), 64(2), Sch. 7 Pt.II (with s. 30(5), Sch. 6 para. 4).

F17. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F1Whole Act except section 17 repealed (5.1.1994) by 1993 c. 44, ss. 63(2), 64(2), Sch. 7 Pt.II (with s. 30(5), Sch. 6 para. 4).

F18. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F1Whole Act except section 17 repealed (5.1.1994) by 1993 c. 44, ss. 63(2), 64(2), Sch. 7 Pt.II (with s. 30(5), Sch. 6 para. 4).

F19. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1Whole Act except section 17 repealed (5.1.1994) by 1993 c. 44, ss. 63(2), 64(2), Sch. 7 Pt.II (with s. 30(5), Sch. 6 para. 4).

F110. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F1Whole Act except section 17 repealed (5.1.1994) by 1993 c. 44, ss. 63(2), 64(2), Sch. 7 Pt.II (with s. 30(5), Sch. 6 para. 4).

F111. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Annotations:

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F1Whole Act except section 17 repealed (5.1.1994) by 1993 c. 44, ss. 63(2), 64(2), Sch. 7 Pt.II (with s. 30(5), Sch. 6 para. 4).

F112. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F1Whole Act except section 17 repealed (5.1.1994) by 1993 c. 44, ss. 63(2), 64(2), Sch. 7 Pt.II (with s. 30(5), Sch. 6 para. 4).

F113. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F1Whole Act except section 17 repealed (5.1.1994) by 1993 c. 44, ss. 63(2), 64(2), Sch. 7 Pt.II (with s. 30(5), Sch. 6 para. 4).

F114. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F1Whole Act except section 17 repealed (5.1.1994) by 1993 c. 44, ss. 63(2), 64(2), Sch. 7 Pt.II (with s. 30(5), Sch. 6 para. 4).

F115. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F1Whole Act except section 17 repealed (5.1.1994) by 1993 c. 44, ss. 63(2), 64(2), Sch. 7 Pt.II (with s. 30(5), Sch. 6 para. 4).

F116. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F1Whole Act except section 17 repealed (5.1.1994) by 1993 c. 44, ss. 63(2), 64(2), Sch. 7 Pt.II (with s. 30(5), Sch. 6 para. 4).

17Extension of powers of Land Court

F1(1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[ F2(2)The books called the “Crofters Holdings Book” and the “Landholders Holdings Book” kept in pursuance of section 27 of the M1Crofters Holdings (Scotland) Act 1886 shall be kept by the principal clerk of the Land Court; and accordingly the said section 27 shall cease to have effect.]

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Amendments (Textual)

F1S. 17(1) repealed (1.5.1994) by 1993 c. 45, s. 2(2)(3), Sch.2.

F2S. 17(2) repealed (so far as applying in crofting counties) (5.1.1994) by 1993 c. 44, ss. 63(2), 64(2), Sch. 7 Pt.I (with s. 30(5), Sch. 6 para. 4).

Marginal Citations

M11886 c. 29.

F118. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F1Whole Act except section 17 repealed (5.1.1994) by 1993 c. 44, ss. 63(2), 64(2), Sch. 7 Pt.II (with s. 30(5), Sch. 6 para. 4).

F119. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F1Whole Act except section 17 repealed (5.1.1994) by 1993 c. 44, ss. 63(2), 64(2), Sch. 7 Pt.II (with s. 30(5), Sch. 6 para. 4).

F120. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F1Whole Act except section 17 repealed (5.1.1994) by 1993 c. 44, ss. 63(2), 64(2), Sch. 7 Pt.II (with s. 30(5), Sch. 6 para. 4).

F121. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F1Whole Act except section 17 repealed (5.1.1994) by 1993 c. 44, ss. 63(2), 64(2), Sch. 7 Pt.II (with s. 30(5), Sch. 6 para. 4).

F122. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Annotations:

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F1Whole Act except section 17 repealed (5.1.1994) by 1993 c. 44, ss. 63(2), 64(2), Sch. 7 Pt.II (with s. 30(5), Sch. 6 para. 4).

F123. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Annotations:

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F1Whole Act except section 17 repealed (5.1.1994) by 1993 c. 44, ss. 63(2), 64(2), Sch. 7 Pt.II (with s. 30(5), Sch. 6 para. 4).