Crofting Reform etc. Act 2007 Explanatory Notes

1. Introduction

2. Background

   1. Definitions

   2. The Act

      1. Part 1: the Crofters Commission

         1. Section 1: Discharge of functions

         2. Section 2: Equal opportunities

         3. Section 3: Obtaining Commission approval or consent

         4. Section 4: Obtaining of information by Commission

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

      2. Part 2: Crofts

         1. Section 6: New crofts

         2. Section 7: The statutory conditions

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

         4. Section 9: Exchange of crofts or parts of crofts

         5. Section 10: Division of croft

         6. Section 11: Subletting

         7. Section 12: Assignation

         8. Section 13: Bequest of tenancy of croft

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

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

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

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

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

         14. Section 19: Access to croft

         15. Section 20: Reorganisation schemes

         16. Section 21: Meaning of croft

      3. Part 3: Termination of Tenancy, Decrofting, Etc.

         1. Section 22: Resumption and reversion

         2. Section 23: Decrofting

         3. Section 24: Re-letting

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

      4. Part 4: Common Grazings

         1. Section 26: Use of common grazing

         2. Section 27: New common grazing

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

         4. Section 29: Further amendment of section 52: apportionment

      5. Part 5: Schemes for Development

         1. Section 30: Schemes for development

      6. Part 6: Crofting Community Right to Buy

         1. Section 31: Crofting community right to buy

      7. Part 7: General and Miscellaneous

         1. Section 32: Regulations concerning loans

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

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

         4. Section 35: Public notification

         5. Section 36: “Members of a family”

         6. Section 37: “Crofting community”

         7. Section 40: Savings

         8. Schedule 1

         9. Schedule 2

3. Parliamentary History