Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 2003

49 Notice required for certain improvements

(1) Compensation under section 45(1) is not payable for an improvement specified in Part II of Schedule 5 to the 1991 Act unless the tenant gave notice in writing to the landlord specifying the tenant’s intention to carry out the improvement and the manner in which it was proposed to carry it out.

(2) In section 39 (approval of Land Court in certain cases) of the 1991 Act (as read with Schedule 5 to that Act), subsections (1) to (4) apply in relation to compensation under section 45(1) as they do in relation to compensation under Part IV of that Act but as if, in subsection (1) of that section—

(a) the words “a new” were omitted;

(b) the words “one month” read “60 days”; and

(c) the reference to notice under section 38(3) of that Act were a reference to the notice mentioned in subsection (1) of this section.