18Application to Scotland and Northern Ireland
(1)This Act shall extend to Scotland and Northern Ireland.
(2)In the application of this Act to Scotland the following provisions shall have effect:—
(a)In the construction of this Act—
“assignment” includes an assignation;
“bailee” includes a custodier, and “contract of bailment” includes any other contract regulating custody of things;
“convey” includes the execution of any deed or other instrument or document by which any property, or any estate, interest, security or other right in or over property, is constituted, completed, disponed, assigned, transmitted or discharged,
“debenture” includes a floating charge or any instrument containing a floating charge;
“forfeiture” includes irritancy;
“judgment” includes a decree;
“leasehold interest” means the interest of the lessee of land under a lease or, as the case may be, the interest of the sub-lessee of land under a sub-lease;
“mortgage” includes a standard security, an assignation or disposition ex facie absolute and any agreement qualifying the same, a bond and disposition or assignation in security, a cash credit bond and disposition or assignation in security, an assignation in security and any real right or burden of whatever kind in the nature of a security whether or not constituted in respect of a heritable security; and
“reversion” means the interest of a landlord in land subject to a lease or, as the case may be, the interest of the lessee of land who is the landlord under a sub-lease;
(b)All standard securities and cash credit bonds and dispositions or assignations in security expressed to be in favour of a transferor vested in A&L by or under this Act shall, on and from the appointed day, have the same effect in favour of A&L up to such maximum amounts as may be stated therein respectively in all respects as if they had been originally granted in favour of A&L for such maximum amounts;
(c)To enable A&L to complete a title, if thought fit, to any property vested in it by virtue of this Act by notice of title or otherwise, or to deduce title, this Act shall be deemed to be, and may be used as, a general disposition, conveyance or, as the case may be, assignation of such property in favour of A&L;
(d)For the reference in subsection (2) of section 11 (Evidence: books and documents) of this Act to section 10 of the [1968 c. 64.] Civil Evidence Act 1968 there shall be substituted reference to section 17 of the [1968 c. 70.] Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1968;
(e)In section 13 (Evidence of vesting) of this Act, subsection (8) shall be omitted:
(3)In the application of this Act to Northern Ireland—
(a)for the reference in subsection (2) of section 11 (Evidence: books and documents) of this Act to section 10 of the Civil Evidence Act 1968 there shall be substituted reference to section 6 of the [1971 c. 36 (N.I.).] Civil Evidence Act (Northern Ireland) 1971;
(b)the references in subsection (3) of section 13 (Evidence of vesting) of this Act to the [1963 c. 18.] Stock Transfer Act 1963 shall include references to the [1963 c. 24 (N.I.).] Stock Transfer Act (Northern Ireland) 1963; and for the reference in subsection (8) of that section to the [1925 c. 20.] Law of Property Act 1925 there shall be substituted reference to the [1881 c. 41.] Conveyancing Act 1881;
(c)for paragraph (a) of section 14 (Vesting of interests in land and other property) of this Act, there shall be substituted the following:—
“(a)constitute a purchase or creation of an estate for the purposes of article 13(4) of the [S.I. 1996/725 (N.I.5).] Business Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 1996; or”.