SCHEDULE 1
Article 2(a)
FORM OF NOTICE OF FIRST REGISTRATION OF A CROFT
The Crofting Register (Notice of First Registration) (Scotland) Order 2012
| Jurisdiction | Scotland |
| Citation | SSI 2012/296 |
| Year | 2012 |
2012 No. 296
Crofters, Cottars And Small Landholders
Registers And Records
The Crofting Register (Notice of First Registration) (Scotland) Order 2012
Made 30th October 2012
Laid before the Scottish Parliament 1st November 2012
Coming into force 30th November 2012
The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 12(8)(b) and 53(2)(a) of the Crofting Reform (Scotland) Act 20101and all other powers enabling them to do so.
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Crofting Register (Notice of First Registration) (Scotland) Order 2012 and comes into force on 30th November 2012.
Notice of first registration
2. The form of notice which is—
(a) in the case of a croft, set out in Schedule 1;
(b) in the case of a common grazing, set out in Schedule 2; and
(c) in the case of land held runrig, set out in Schedule 3,
is prescribed for the purposes of section 12(8)(b) of the Crofting Reform (Scotland) Act 2010.
PAUL WHEELHOUSE
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
30th October 2012
SCHEDULE 2
Article 2(b)
FORM OF NOTICE OF FIRST REGISTRATION OF A COMMON GRAZING
SCHEDULE 3
Article 2(c)
FORM OF NOTICE OF FIRST REGISTRATION OF LAND HELD RUNRIG
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
Section 12(8) of the Crofting Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 provides that in most cases the applicant for first registration of a croft, common grazing or land held runrig in the Crofting Register must, on receipt of the certificate of registration, give public notice of the registration by—
placing an advertisement, for two consecutive weeks, in a local newspaper circulating in the area where the croft, common grazing or land held runrig is situated, and
affixing a conspicuous notice in the prescribed form to a part of the croft, common grazing or land held runrig.
This Order prescribes that form of notice.
A business and regulatory impact assessment has not been produced as no impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.
(1) 2010 asp 14 (“the 2010 Act”). Section 12(10) of the 2010 Act contains a definition of “prescribed” for the purpose of section 12(8). Section 12 is applied, with modifications, to common grazings by section 28 of and paragraph 5 of schedule 3 to the 2010 Act and to land held...
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