Crofting (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2013

3 Retrospective effect and application

(1) The provisions mentioned in subsection (2) are to be treated for all purposes as having had effect during the period from 1 October 2011 until the coming into force of this Act.

(2) Those provisions are—

(a) the provisions of the 1993 Act inserted by section 1 (other than section 24D(3)), as modified by subsection (3), and

(b) the modifications of that Act made by the schedule.

(3) The modifications referred to in subsection (2)(a) are that—

(a) in section 24B, subsection (3) is omitted,

(b) in section 24C(4)(d), “(4ZC) and” is substituted for “(4ZA) to”.

(4) Accordingly—

(a) an application of a kind mentioned in subsection (5) is to be treated as having been made under section 24A(1) of the 1993 Act (as inserted by section 1),

(b) a decision of a kind mentioned in subsection (6), and a direction of a kind mentioned in that subsection, is to be treated as having been made or, as the case may be, given under section 24B(1) of that Act (as so inserted).

(5) The application referred to in subsection (4)(a) is one purported to have been made—

(a) by an owner-occupier crofter under section 24(3) of the 1993 Act,

(b) during the period from 1 October 2011 until the coming into force of this Act.

(6) The decision referred to in subsection (4)(b), and the direction referred to in that paragraph, is one purported to have been made or, as the case may be, given—

(a) by the Commission under section 24(3) of the 1993 Act,

(b) on an application of a kind mentioned in subsection (5),

(c) before the coming into force of this Act.

(7) In this section, the “Commission” and “owner-occupier crofter” have the meanings given by the 1993 Act.