Crofting Reform etc. Act 2007

1. Introductory Text

2. Part 1 The Crofters Commission

   1. 1. Discharge of functions

   2. 2. Equal opportunities

   3. 3. Obtaining Commission approval or consent

   4. 4. Obtaining of information by Commission

   5. 5. Maintenance of and provision of information from the Register of Crofts

3. Part 2 Crofts

   1. 6. New crofts

   2. 7. The statutory conditions

   3. 8. Complaint as respects breach of the statutory conditions

   4. 9. Exchange of crofts or parts of crofts

   5. 10. Division of croft

   6. 11. Subletting

   7. 12. Assignation

   8. 13. Bequest of tenancy of croft

   9. 14. Prior rights, on intestacy, in relation to tenancy of croft

   10. 15. Transfer of tenancy of croft by executor: amendment of section 16 of the Succession (Scotland) Act 1964

   11. 16. Transfer of tenancy of croft by executor: special provision relating to the 1993 Act

   12. 17. Amendment of section 11 of the 1993 Act

   13. 18. Determination of the Land Court as to croft boundaries

   14. 19. Access to croft

   15. 20. Reorganisation schemes

   16. 21. Meaning of croft

4. Part 3 Termination of tenancy, decrofting, etc.

   1. 22. Resumption and reversion

   2. 23. Decrofting

   3. 24. Re-letting

   4. 25. Compensation for improvements for purposes other than cultivation or grazing etc.

5. Part 4 Common grazings

   1. 26. Use of common grazing

   2. 27. New common grazing

   3. 28. Contravention of, or failure to comply with, common grazings regulations

   4. 29. Further amendment of section 52: apportionment

6. Part 5 Schemes for development

   1. 30. Schemes for development

7. Part 6 Crofting community right to buy

   1. 31. Crofting community right to buy

8. Part 7 General and miscellaneous

   1. General

      1. 32. Regulations concerning loans

      2. 33. Appeal to Land Court and jurisdiction of that court

      3. 34. Further amendments in relation to the Land Court

      4. 35. Public notification

      5. 36. “Members of a family”

      6. 37. “Crofting community”

      7. 38. “The 1993 Act”

   2. Miscellaneous

      1. 39. Minor and consequential amendments

      2. 40. Savings

      3. 41. Transitional provision etc.

      4. 42. Repeals

      5. 43. Short title, Crown application and commencement

9. 1. SCHEDULE 1

      Minor and consequential amendments

      1. Crofters Holdings (Scotland) Act 1886 (c. 29)

         1. 1. In section 1(4) of the Crofters Holdings (Scotland) Act 1886...

      2. Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993 (c. 44)

         1. 2. (1) The 1993 Act is amended in accordance with this...

      3. Scottish Land Court Act 1993 (c. 45)

         1. 3. In section 1(6) of the Scottish Land Court Act 1993...

      4. Deer (Scotland) Act 1996 (c. 58)

         1. 4. In section 26 of the Deer (Scotland) Act 1996 (right...

      5. Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 2)

         1. 5. (1) The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 is amended in...

   2. SCHEDULE 2

      Repeals