Explanatory Notes

Crofting Reform (Scotland) Act 2010

2010 asp 14

6 August 2010

The Act

Part 2 – the Crofting Register

Registration of common grazings

Section 24:  First registration of common grazings

55.Section 24 provides for the first registration of an unregistered common grazing by the Crofting Commission. It also requires first registration of a new common grazing once the Crofting Commission has made a determination to constitute land as a common grazing and the associated appeal period of 42 days has ended. Subsection (2) provides that the land is a common grazing from the date of registration and that the land comprising the common grazing is determined by the description of that land in the registration schedule.