Land registration: period of effect of advance notice
19Section 58 of the 2012 Act (period of effect of advance notice) has effect as if modified as follows—
(a)after subsection (1) there were inserted—
“(1A)If the application record is closed for the making of all entries as a result of coronavirus, an advance notice which has effect on the day the application record is closed is to have effect until the later of—
(a)the end of the period specified in section 58(1),
(b)the end of the period ending 10 days after the day on which the Keeper declares the application record fully open for the making of entries.
(1B)If the Register of Sasines is closed for the making of all entries as a result of coronavirus, an advance notice which has effect on the day the Register of Sasines is closed is to have effect until the later of—
(a)the end of the period specified in section 58(1),
(b)the end of the period ending 10 days after the day on which the Keeper declares the application record fully open for the recording of entries.
(1C)If the application record is closed for the making of some entries as a result of coronavirus, an advance notice which is entered in the application record during the period that the application record is closed in part is to have effect until the later of—
(a)the end of the period specified in section 58(1),
(b)the end of the period ending 10 days after the day on which the Keeper declares the application record fully open for the making of entries.
(1D)If the Register of Sasines is closed for the recording of some entries as a result of coronavirus, an advance notice which is recorded during the period that the Register of Sasines is closed in part is to have effect until the later of—
(a)the end of the period specified in section 58(1),
(b)the end of the period ending 10 days after the day on which the Keeper declares the Register of Sasines fully open for the making of entries.”,
(b)in subsection (2), for “Subsection (1) is” there were substituted “Subsections (1), (1A), (1B), (1C) and (1D) are”,
(c)after subsection (7) there were inserted—
“(8)In this section, “coronavirus” has the meaning given by section 1 of the Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020.”.