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Countryside (Scotland) Act 1967
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16 Effect of access agreement or order on rights and liabilities of persons interested in land.S
(1)A person interested in any land comprised in an access agreement or order, not being excepted land, shall not carry out any work thereon whereby the area to which the public are able to have access by virtue of the agreement or order is substantially reduced:
Provided that nothing in this subsection shall affect the doing of anything whereby any land becomes excepted land.
(2)Any restriction arising under an agreement or otherwise as to the use of any land comprised in an access agreement or order shall have effect subject to the provisions of this Part of this Act, and any liability of a person interested in such land in respect of such a restriction shall be limited accordingly.
(3)For the purposes of any enactment or rule of law as to the circumstances in which a right of way or servitude may be constituted, use of land by the public or by any person at any time while it is comprised in an access agreement or order shall be disregarded.
(4)Every access agreement and access order and every instrument or order varying or revoking any such agreement or order shall contain a particular description of the lands affected or a description by reference of those lands in the manner provided by section 61 of the M1Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1874.
(5)As soon as may be after any such agreement or instrument as is referred to in the last foregoing subsection is made, or after any such order is confirmed, [F1the general of district planning] authority shall cause it to be recorded in the Register of Sasines, and when so recorded, it shall be enforceable at the instance of the local planning authority against persons deriving title to the land or to the relevant interest therein from the person so entitled when the agreement, order or instrument was made:
Provided that any such agreement, order or instrument shall not be so enforceable against a third party who shall have in good faith and for value acquired right (whether completed by infeftment or not) to the land or to the relevant interest therein prior to the agreement, order or instrument being recorded as aforesaid, or against any person deriving title from such third party.
In this subsection, “relevant interest” means an interest which is subject to such an agreement, order or instrument as is referred to in the last foregoing subsection.
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F1Words substituted by Local Government and Planning (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 43, SIF 81:2), s. 9, Sch. 1 Pt. I, Pt. II, para. 5
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