Explanatory Notes

Long Leases (Scotland) Act 2012

2012 asp 9

7 August 2012

Part 2: Conversion of Certain Leasehold Conditions to Real Burdens

Other real burdens

Section 29: Conversion to facility or service burden

139.Subsection (1) provides for the automatic conversion of qualifying conditions concerned with the maintenance, management, reinstatement or use of facilities into facility burdens. Typical examples of facilities are given in subsection (3). “Facility burden” is defined in section 122(1) of the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003.

140.Obligations to maintain or reinstate which have been taken over by a local or other public authority are excluded (see section 33).

141.Subsection (2) provides for the automatic conversion of qualifying conditions concerned with the provision of services to other land into service burdens. “Service burden” is defined in section 122(1) of the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003.