Agricultural Holdings (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1983

PART III Supplementary

1 For the purposes of section 26A of this Act and this Schedule—

• " amalgamation " means a transaction for securing that agricultural land which is comprised in a holding to which a notice to quit relates and which together with other agricultural land could form an agricultural unit, shall be owned and occupied in conjunction with that other land ;

• " near relative " in relation to a deceased tenant of an agricultural holding means a surviving spouse or child of that tenant, including a child adopted by him in pursuance of an adoption order (as denned in section 23(5) of the [1964 c. 41.] Succession (Scotland) Act 1964) ; and

• " two-man unit" means an agricultural unit which in the opinion of the Land Court is capable of providing full-time employment for an individual occupying it and at least one other man.

2 For the purposes of determining whether land is a two-man unit, in assessing the capability of the unit of providing employment it shall be assumed that the unit is farmed under reasonably skilled management, that a system of husbandry suitable for the district is followed and that the greater part of the feeding stuffs required by any livestock kept on the unit is grown there.

3 For the purposes of Case 7 of this Schedule, occupation of agricultural land—

(a) by a company which is controlled by the tenant shall be treated as occupation by the tenant; and

(b) by a Scottish partnership shall, notwithstanding section 4(2) of the [1890 c. 39.] Partnership Act 1890, be treated as occupation by each of its partners.