The Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (Rural Housing Bodies) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2007

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 535

TITLE CONDITIONS

The Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (Rural Housing Bodies) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2007

Made

28th November 2007

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

29th November 2007

Coming into force

1st January 2008

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the power conferred by section 43(5) of the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.

They are satisfied as to the matters mentioned in section 43(6) of that Act.

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (Rural Housing Bodies) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2007 and shall come into force on 1st January 2008.

Additions to the list of prescribed rural housing bodies

2.  The Schedule to the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (Rural Housing Bodies) Order 2004(2) (rural housing bodies prescribed under section 43(5) of the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003) is amended by inserting, in the appropriate places according to alphabetical order, the following bodies:–

• Argyll Community Housing Association;

• HIFAR Limited;

• North West Mull Community Woodland Company Limited;

• West Highland Rural Solutions Limited.

FERGUS EWING

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

28th November 2007

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (Rural Housing Bodies) Order 2004 by adding four new bodies to the list of prescribed rural housing bodies. Rural housing bodies are bodies in favour of whom it is competent to create a rural housing burden comprising a right of pre-emption under section 43(1) of the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003.

(1)

2003 asp 9. Section 43 was amended by the Tenements (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 11), section 25 and Schedule 4, paragraph 12.

(2)

S.S.I. 2004/477; amended by S.S.I. 2006/108 and S.S.I. 2007/58.