Explanatory Notes

Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 2003

2003 asp 11

17 April 2003

Introduction

Part 2:  Tenant’s Right to Buy Land

Section 24: The Keeper and the Register

78.Under Part 2 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 (“the Land Reform Act”), the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland is to set up and keep a Register of Community Interests in Land, to record registrations of community interest to acquire land under the Community Right to Buy provided for in that Act. Section 24 of the 2003 Act requires that the Keeper is to keep that register so that it contains a part for registering tenants’ interests in acquiring land in accordance with section 25 of the 2003 Act.