Conveyancing and Feudal Reform (Scotland) Act 1970

PART VI General

51 Application to Crown

This Act shall, subject to any exceptions stated therein, apply to land held of the Crown and of the Prince and Steward of Scotland, and to land in which there is any other interest belonging to Her Majesty in right of the Crown or to a Government department, or held on behalf of Her Majesty for the purposes of a Government department, in like manner as it applies to other land.

52 Saving, amendment and repeal

(1) Any procedure, notice, advertisement, certificate or warrant instituted, given or granted, or any other thing done under any enactment amended or disapplied by this Act, shall not be invalidated by the coming into force of that amendment or disapplication, but it and any sale or other proceedings dependent thereon shall have effect as if this Act had not come into operation.

(2) The enactments specified in Schedule 10 to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in that Schedule, being minor amendments and amendments consequential on the provisions of this Act.

(3) The enactments specified in Schedule 11 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in relation thereto in that Schedule.

53 Interpretation

(1) It shall be sufficient compliance with any provisions in this Act which require any deed, notice, certificate or procedure to be in conformity with a Form or Note, or other requirement of this Act, that that deed, notice, certificate or procedure so conforms as closely as may be, and nothing in this Act shall preclude the inclusion of any additional matter which the person granting the deed or giving or serving the notice or giving the certificate or adopting the procedure may consider relevant.

(2) In any Form prescribed by Schedules 2, 4, 5, 6 and 9 to this Act, and in any Note to those Schedules, the expression " Register for " means the Register of Sasines appropriate for.

(3) Any reference in this Act to any other enactment is a reference thereto as amended, and includes a reference thereto as extended or applied, by or under any other enactment, including this Act.

(4) In this Act, except Part II, unless the context otherwise requires—

• " conveyance ", " deed " and " instrument " have the meanings assigned to them in section 3 of the [1868 c. 101.] Titles to Land Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1868, section 3 of the [1874 c. 94.] Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1874, and section 2 of the [1924 c. 27.] Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1924 ;

• " duly recorded " means recorded in the appropriate Register of Sasines;

• " Lands Tribunal " means the Lands Tribunal for Scotland ;

• " prescribed " means prescribed by rules made under section 3 of the Lands Tribunal Act 1949 ;

• " Register of Sasines " has the meaning assigned to it in section 2 of the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1924.

54 Short title, commencement and extent

(1) This Act may be cited as the Conveyancing and Feudal Reform (Scotland) Act 1970.

(2) This Act shall come into operation—

(a) except as respects sections 1 to 6, section 50, sections 51 to 53 in so far as they relate to those sections, and this section, at the expiration of a period of six months beginning with the date on which it is passed,

(b) as respects sections 1 to 6 and sections 51 to 53 in so far as they relate to those sections, on such date as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint, and different days may be appointed for different provisions,

(c) as respects section 50, sections 51 to 53 in so far as they relate thereto, and this section, on the passing of this Act;

and any reference in any provision of this Act to the commencement of this Act shall, unless otherwise provided by any such order, be construed as a reference to the date on which that provision comes into operation.

(3) This Act shall extend to Scotland only.