Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations prescribe the form of application and notices which must be used in connection with various procedures under Part 2 (Community Right to Buy) of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 (“the Act”). In particular, the Regulations prescribe in Schedule 1, the new form of application to be completed by a community body where it wishes to re register an interest in land.
Regulation 2 specifies that an application by a community body to register or re-register an interest in land under section 37(1) of the Act should be in or as near as may be in the form of application specified in Schedule 1.
Regulation 3 prescribes the form of notice which must be used by a community body where the owner of land in which a community interest is sought to be registered or re registered, or a creditor in a standard security over any part of that land, may be unknown or cannot be found. The notice must be affixed to a part of the land and its prescribed form is specified in Schedule 2.
Regulation 4 and Schedule 3 specify the form of notice which must be used by the Scottish Ministers when they are intimating their decision on whether or not a community interest is to be entered or re entered in the Register of Community Interests in Land.
Regulation 5 and Schedule 4 prescribe the form of notice which must be given to a community body and the Scottish Ministers by the owner of land, or a creditor in a standard security over that land, under section 48 of the Act where a transfer of the land is proposed.
Regulation 6 prescribes the form of notices to be given by the Scottish Ministers to a community body and to the owner of the land following receipt of a notice under section 48 of the Act. The form of these notices is specified in Schedules 5 and 6 respectively.