Crofting Reform etc. Act 2007

35 Public notification

After section 55 of the 1993 Act, there is inserted—

“55A Public notification

(1) For the purposes of this Act, public notification shall be given by publishing or causing to be published a notice in appropriate form in one or more newspapers circulating in the district in which the croft or, as the case may be, common grazing to which the application relates (or in the case of public notification under section 50B(4)(a)(ii) the regulations relate) is situated.

(2) A notice is in appropriate form if—

(a) its form and content comply, or do so as far as is reasonably practicable, with the form and content specified by the Commission for an application of that type (or as the case may be for regulations under section 49(2)(g) of this Act); and

(b) it specifies—

(i) the purpose of the application to which it relates (or in the case of regulations the matters which are required to be set out in it by virtue of section 50B(4)(a)(i) of this Act);

(ii) a description of the croft land or, as the case may be, common grazing to which the application relates (or regulations relate); and

(iii) in the case of an application, the period during which, and manner in which, objections may be made.

(3) Where, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, a person giving public notification is also required to serve notice on a landlord, tenant or occupier of croft land to which the application relates or, if applicable, on the owner of, or a crofter sharing in, the common grazing, such notice shall be in the form required by subsection (2) above.”.