Part 3A

Community right to buy abandoned, neglected or detrimental land

Right to buy same land exercisable by only one Part 3A community body
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Only one Part 3A community body may exercise the right under this Part to buy the same land.
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Where two or more such bodies have applied to buy the same land, it is for Ministers to decide which application is to proceed.
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Ministers may not make such a decision unless they have had regard to all views on each of the applications, and responses to the views, which they have received in answer to invitations under section 97G.
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On Ministers so deciding—
a
the other body's right to buy the land which is the subject of the body's application is, so far as proceeding on that application, extinguished, and
b
they must notify the bodies and each person invited, under section 97G(9)(a), to send them views on the application of that fact.
Pt. 3A inserted (30.6.2017 for specified purposes, 27.6.2018 in so far as not already in force) by Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 6), ss. 74, 142(1); S.S.I. 2017/192, art. 2; S.S.I. 2018/139, art. 2(a)