Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016 Explanatory Notes

Section 111 – Tenant’s offer to relinquish 1991 Act tenancy: consequential modifications

693.Section 111 makes consequential modifications to the 1991 and 2003 Acts in light of new Part 3A of the 1991 Act. In particular, new section 74A is inserted into the 2003 Act by section 111(4) of the Act. This provides that the Scottish Ministers may make regulations to disapply the new Part 3A process to tenants in certain types of partnership, such as limited partnerships; to allow general partners in certain types of limited partnership to be treated as if they were a tenant under the new Part 3A process; and to apply this new process to tenants in certain types of partnership with appropriate modifications. These regulations are subject to affirmative parliamentary procedure.

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