Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2025
Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2025 (2025 asp 15)
- Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2025 (2025 asp 15)
- Part 1 Land reform
- Chapter 1 Large land holdings: Management and transfer of ownership
- 1 Community-engagement obligations in relation to large land holding
- 2 Community right to buy: registration of interest in large land holding
- 3 Modifications in connection with section 2
- 4 Lotting of large land holding
- 5 Modifications in connection with section 4
- 6 Modifications in connection with sections 2 and 4
- 7 Establishment of the Land and Communities Commissioner
- Chapter 2 Functions of the Land Commissioners
- 8 Functions of the Land Commissioners: natural capital markets
- 9 Functions of the Land Commissioners: further provisions
- Chapter 3 Review of part
- 10 Review of Part 1
- Part 2 Leasing land
- Chapter 1 Model leases
- 11 Duty to publish model lease for environmental purposes
- 12 Duty to publish model lease for hutting
- Chapter 2 Small landholdings
- 13 Small landholdings
- 14 Extension of Tenant Farming Commissioner’s functions
- Chapter 3 Agricultural holdings
- Tenant’s right to buy
- 15 Registration of interest and right to buy
- Assignation in relation to 1991 Act tenancies
- 16 Assignation of tenancy
- Assignation in relation to 2003 Act tenancies
- 17 Assignation of limited duration tenancy
- 18 Assignation of modern limited duration tenancy
- 19 Assignation of repairing tenancy
- Resumption
- 20 Resumption in relation to 1991 Act tenancies
- 21 Resumption in respect of limited duration tenancies and repairing tenancies
- 22 Compensation for disturbance on resumption
- Compensation on termination and resumption
- 23 Power to make provision about compensation on termination
- 24 Power to make provision about compensation on resumption
- Compensation for improvements
- 25 Compensation for improvements
- Use of agricultural land: diversification
- 26 Notice of and objection to diversification
- 27 Tenant extension notice
- 28 Determinations by Land Court
- 29 Compensation arising as a result of diversification
- Tenant Farming Commissioner: codes of practice
- 30 Resumption and termination of relevant tenancies and small landholdings
- 31 Use of land for non-agricultural purposes
- Game damage etc.
- 32 Compensation for damage by game etc.
- Introduction of standard procedure for claiming compensation
- 33 Standard claim procedure
- 34 Interest payable on compensation
- Rent review
- 35 Rent review: 1991 Act tenancies
- 36 Rent review: limited duration tenancies
- 37 Rent review: repairing tenancies
- Rules of good estate management and husbandry
- 38 Rules of good estate management
- 39 Rules of good husbandry
- Succession in relation to 1991 Act tenancies
- 40 Notice requirements: lease of 1991 Act holding
- 41 Landlord’s objection to legatee or acquirer on intestacy: near relatives and other persons
- 42 Legatee or acquirer on intestacy: supplementary provision
- Succession in relation to 2003 Act tenancies
- 43 Succession to tenancy
- Part 3 Final provisions
- 44 Ancillary provision
- 45 Regulation-making powers
- 46 Further procedure for regulations under sections 23 and 24
- 47 Commencement
- 48 Short title
- Schedule 1 Meaning of connected person
- Schedule 2 Small landholdings
- Part 1 Small landholdings and small landholders
- Leases of small landholdings
- Persons who may be small landholders
- Land which may not be, or be part of, a small landholding
- Size of small landholding
- Duration of lease of small landholding
- Part 2 Rent
- Rent
- Alteration of rent by agreement
- Application to Land Court to fix the rent
- Land Court’s power to fix the rent in connection with a ruling on diversification
- Land Court’s powers in respect of rent arrears
- Part 3 Use of small landholding
- Conditions of let
- Dwelling-houses
- Landlord’s right of access
- Landlord’s right to use water rising on holding
- Compensation for damage caused by game or game management
- Part 4 Diversification
- Diversification agreement
- Notice of diversification
- Request by landlord for information about proposed diversification
- Landlord’s agreement or objection to notice of diversification
- Negotiation of diversification agreement
- Withdrawal of objection
- Withdrawal or modification of conditions
- Determination of Land Court in relation to objection to diversification
- Diversification agreement entered into during proceedings under paragraph 23
- Application by landholder to Land Court to remove conditions
- Use of land other than for cultivation
- Interpretation of Part
- Part 5 Disposal of holding by small landholder
- Chapter 1 Renunciation
- Renunciation of tenancy by small landholder
- Chapter 2 Assignation
- Ability to assign
- Landlord’s objection to assignation
- Chapter 3 Succession
- Bequest of holding
- Intestate succession to holding
- Landlord’s objection to successor: near relatives
- Landlord’s objection to successor: other persons
- Landlord’s objection to successor: right to temporary occupation
- Part 6 Removal of small landholder
- Security of tenure
- Removal for breach of conditions
- Resumption by landlord
- Part 7 Compensation
- Chapter 1 Right to compensation
- Small landholder’s right to compensation
- Small landholder’s right to compensation: improvements
- Small landholder’s right to compensation: increase in value due to diversification
- Landlord’s right to compensation
- Landlord’s right to compensation: deterioration etc. of holding.
- Landlord’s right to compensation: decrease in value due to diversification
- Recovery of compensation: further provision
- Chapter 2 Compensation: ancillary provision
- Outstanding rent
- Compensation to outgoing landholder by incoming landholder
- Record of condition
- Chapter 3 Process for determination of compensation amount
- Application to Tenant Farming Commissioner
- Appointment of valuer by Tenant Farming Commissioner
- Objection to valuer appointed by Tenant Farming Commissioner
- Valuer’s expenses
- Assessment of compensation
- Notice of assessment
- Appeal against valuer’s assessment
- Referral of certain matters by Lands Tribunal to Land Court
- Part 8 Right to buy
- Register of Community Interests in Land: small landholders’ interests in buying land
- Registration of small landholder’s interest in buying land
- Owner’s challenge to registration
- Duration of registration
- Notice of proposal to transfer land
- Transfers not requiring notice
- Right to buy
- Exercise of right to buy
- Effect of extinguishing right to buy
- Procedure for buying
- Appointment of valuer
- Valuation of the land
- Valuation etc.: further provision
- Appeal to Lands Tribunal against valuation
- Referral of certain matters by Lands Tribunal to Land Court
- Registration of small landholder’s interest: power to modify provisions
- Interpretation of Part
- Part 9 Alternative dispute resolution
- Agreement to resolve matters other than by application to Land Court
- Arbitration: procedure etc.
- Conduct of arbitrator and setting aside of arbitrator’s award
- Part 10 Consequential modifications
- Repeal and disapplication of existing law
- Crofters Holdings (Scotland) Act 1887
- Small Landholders (Scotland) Act 1911
- Small Landholders and Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1931
- Succession (Scotland) Act 1964
- Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993
- Scottish Land Court Act 1993
- Part 11 General and interpretation
- Restriction on contracting out of small landholders’ statutory rights
- Restriction on contracting out of rights to apply to Land Court
- Interpretation
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