The Asset Transfer Request (Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 2016

Acknowledgment of requests

4.—(1) Paragraph (2) applies where a relevant authority has received an asset transfer request which complies with regulation 3(1) but does not contain, or is not accompanied by, all the information or documentation which the community transfer body is required to submit in order to comply with section 79(4)(a) to (g) of the Act and regulation 3(2).

(2) Where this paragraph applies, the relevant authority must send to the community transfer body a notice identifying the information or documentation which the community transfer body still requires to submit in order to comply with section 79(4)(a) to (g) of the Act and regulation 3(2).

(3) Paragraph (4) applies where a relevant authority has received—

(a) an asset transfer request which complies with regulation 3(1); and

(b) all the information or documentation which the community transfer body is required to submit in order to comply with section 79(4)(a) to (g) of the Act and regulation 3(2).

(4) Where this paragraph applies, the relevant authority must send an acknowledgement thereof to the community transfer body.

(5) The acknowledgement sent under paragraph (4) is to—

(a) include the validation date for the asset transfer request;

(b) include an explanation of the period within which the relevant authority is to give notice to the community transfer body of its decision on the asset transfer request; and

(c) inform the community transfer body—

(i) of the right to appeal to the Scottish Ministers under section 85 of the Act or the right to require a review under section 86 or 87 of the Act, as the case may be;

(ii) whether another asset transfer request has already been made to the relevant authority in respect of the land (or part of the land) to which the asset transfer request relates; and

(iii) whether or not the relevant authority considers, as at the date on which the acknowledgment is sent, that the relevant authority is prohibited by section 84(2) of the Act from selling, leasing or otherwise disposing of the land to which the asset transfer request relates other than to the community transfer body.