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Conveyancing and Feudal Reform (Scotland) Act 1970
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Reduction of period of positive prescription
8Reduction of period of possession necessary for prescription following on title and possession from 20 years to 10 years
(1)Section 16 of the [1924 c. 27.] Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1924 (prescription following on title and possession) shall have effect, except in relation to any claim as against the Crown to the ownership of any foreshore or salmon fishings , with the substitution for the references to 20 years of references to 10 years.
(2)The provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall not be pleadable to any effect in any action in dependence at the commencement of this Act, or in any action which shall be commenced prior to the day occurring on the expiry of 2 years from and after such commencement (hereafter in this section referred to as " the appointed day ").
(3)For the purposes of the said section 16, as amended by this section, possession for any space of time prior to the appointed day shall not have effect unless such space of time immediately preceded and was continuous up to that day.
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