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Crofting and Scottish Land Court Bill
Author: Euan Ross
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Published: Thursday 02 Oct 2025 (SB 25-47)
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Part 1 - Crofting reform
Chapter 1 - Crofts and crofters
Section 1 - enabling environmental uses of crofts
Section 2 – Removal of Timescales for Deciding Applications
Section 3 – Reporting on Breaches of Duties
Section 4 – Enforcement of Duties
Section 5 – Enforcement Action Against Subtenants and Tenants of Short Leases
Section 6 – Power to Decline to Act Until Information Provided
Section 7 – Statutory Conditions: Entitlement to Fixed Equipment
Section 8 – Assignations to Family Members
Section 9 – Meaning of “Owner-Occupier Crofter”
Section 10 – Ownership of owner-occupied crofts
Section 11 – Ten-Year Restriction on Assignation and Purchase Following Commission Let
Section 12 – Decrofting Direction: Rationalisation of Routes and Requirements
Section 13 – Commission Decision-Making on Decrofting Applications
Section 14 – Commission's Powers to Adjust Boundaries
Section 15 – Common Grazings' Unattached Shares
Section 16 – Grazings Committees Meetings
Section 17 – Appointment of Grazings Committee or Grazings Constable: Appeal to Land Court
Section 18 – Use of Common Grazings for Forestry or Environmental Purposes
Section 19 – Meaning of Crofting Community, Parish and Township
Section 20 – Crofts Not to Be Private Residential Tenancies
Chapter 2 - Registration
Section 21 – Changes to the Register of Crofts
Section 22 – First Registration of Crofts Purchased by Tenant Crofter
Section 23 – Payment of Fees for Applications for Registration
Section 24 – Requirement to Notify Landlord of First Registration Application
Section 25 – Notification of First Registration
Section 26 – Rectification of the Crofting Register
Section 27 – Form of applications for registration
Chapter 3 - Miscellaneous
Section 28 – Service of notices
Section 29 – Public notification
Section 30 – Crofting census notices
Section 31 – Appointment of Chair
Section 32 – Appointed members: special considerations
Section 33 – Chairing of Commission meetings and committees
Part 2 - Merger of the Scottish Land Court and the Lands Tribunal for Scotland
Section 35 – 39 - The Scottish Land Court
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