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subsection (2).</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-40-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>In section 8 (assignation of croft)—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-40-2-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p><mod>for subsection (1B) substitute—<quotedStructure startQuote="“" endQuote="”" uk:context="body" uk:docName="asp" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="double"><subsection><num>(1B)</num><content><p>The Commission may not grant consent to the assignation of the crofter’s croft if, on the date on which the application for consent was made, the croft was an unregistered croft.</p></content></subsection></quotedStructure><inline name="appendText">,</inline></mod></p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-40-2-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>subsection (6) is repealed,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-40-2-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p><mod>in subsection (6A), in the opening words, for “In relation to 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