136.Section 58 of the Act amends section 61 of the 2003 Act. Section 61 provides a right of appeal to the sheriff for the landowner, the community body and other interested parties in respect of certain decisions by Ministers. In terms of section 48(4) of the 2003 Act, where there is a creditor with a right to sell the land and that creditor gives notice of a proposal to sell the land under section 48(1), the creditor would also have a right of appeal.
137.Section 58(a) of the Act expands the interested parties to include a “creditor in a standard security with a right to sell land” in all cases (including where the creditor has not given notice of a proposal to sell the land under section 48(1) of the 2003 Act). Section 58(b) and (c) of the Act amend the remaining sections of section 61 of the 2003 Act to take account of the creditor’s right of appeal. The words “or” to “person” in section 61(3) of the 2003 Act are repealed by schedule 5 to the Act.