Crofting Reform (Scotland) Act 2010

24 First registration of common grazings

(1) An unregistered common grazing—

(a) must be registered, in the case of a new common grazing, subject to section 51B of the 1993 Act, on the determination under section 51A(1) of that Act to constitute the land as a common grazing;

(b) may be registered, in any other case, on an application being made by the Commission.

(2) Where land is registered under subsection (1), for the purposes of this Act—

(a) the land is, from the date of registration, a common grazing; and

(b) the land which comprises the common grazing is determined by the description of that land in the registration schedule of the common grazing.

(3) Nothing in this section affects whether, before the date of registration, the land was a common grazing.

(4) In this Part, “new common grazing” means land in relation to which the Commission have made a determination, under section 51A(1) of the 1993 Act, to constitute the land as a common grazing.