Section 24: Conversion to economic development burden
106.This section allows a local authority, or the Scottish Ministers, with the right to enforce a qualifying condition which was imposed for the purpose of promoting economic development to convert that condition into an economic development burden in their favour. An economic development burden may lay down how the property should be used or may require money to be paid to the local authority or the Scottish Ministers. The relevant provision in the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 is section 45.
107.Subsection (1) provides for the execution and registration of a notice.
108.Subsection (2) sets out the content of the notice. Further provision as to counter-obligations (paragraph (f)) is made in section 34.
109.Subsection (3) provides for registration of the notice against the burdened property. Registration can be against either the title of the owner or the title of the tenant.
110.Subsection (4) converts the qualifying condition on the appointed day into an economic development burden in favour of the local authority or the Scottish Ministers provided that the requirements of the section have been complied with and that immediately before the appointed day the qualifying condition is still enforceable.
111.The section is subject to section 36, which makes further provision in relation to notices, and section 75, which deals with pre-registration requirements for notices.
