Crofters (Scotland) Act 1955 (repealed 5.1.1994)

Section 3.

SECOND SCHEDULE U.K. The Statutory Conditions

1 The crofter shall pay his rent at the terms at which it is due and payable.

2 The crofter shall not, except in accordance with the provisions of this Act, execute any deed purporting to assign his tenancy.

3 The crofter shall, by himself or his family, with or without hired labour, cultivate his croft, without prejudice to the right hereby conferred on him to make such use thereof for subsidiary or auxiliary occupations as, in case of dispute [F1 the Land Court] may find to be reasonable and not inconsistent with the cultivation of the croft.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words substituted by Crofters (Scotland) Act 1961 (c. 58), Sch. 1 Pt. II para. 20

[F2 3A The crofter shall provide such fixed equipment on his croft as may be necessary to enable him to cultivate the croft.]

Textual Amendments

F2 Para. 3A added by Crofters (Scotland) Act 1961 (c. 58), Sch. 1 Pt. II para. 20

4 The crofter shall not, to the prejudice of the interest of the landlord, persistently injure the croft by the dilapidation of buildings or, after notice in writing has been given by the landlord to the crofter not to commit, or to desist from, the particular injury specified in the notice, by the deterioration of the soil.

[F3 5 A crofter shall not sublet his croft or any part thereof otherwise than with the consent in writing of the Commission and in accordance with such conditions (which shall not include conditions relating to rent) as the Commission in giving their consent may impose:

Provided that nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as debarring a crofter from subletting any dwelling-house or other building forming part of his croft to holiday visitors.]

Textual Amendments

F3 Para. 5 substituted by Crofters (Scotland) Act 1961 (c. 58), Sch. 1 Pt. II para. 20

6 The crofter shall not, except in accordance with the provisions of this Act, subdivide his croft.

7 The crofter shall not, without the consent in writing of the landlord, erect or suffer to be erected on the croft any dwelling-house otherwise than in substitution for a dwelling-house which at the commencement of this Act was already on the croft:

Provided that, if at the commencement of this Act there was no dwelling-house on the croft, the crofter may erect one dwelling-house thereon.

8 The crofter shall not persistently violate any written condition signed by him for the protection of the interest of the landlord or of neighbouring crofters which is legally applicable to the croft and which the Land Court shall find to be reasonable.

9 The crofter shall not do any act whereby he becomes notour bankrupt within the meaning of the M1 Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1913, and shall not execute a trust deed for creditors.

Marginal Citations

M1 1913 c. 20.

10 The crofter shall permit the landlord or any person authorised by the landlord in that behalf to enter upon the croft for the purpose of exercising (subject always to the payment of such compensation as in case of dispute the Land Court may find to be reasonable in respect of any damage done or occasioned thereby) any of the following rights, and shall not obstruct the landlord or any person authorised as aforesaid in the exercise of any of such rights, that is to say—

(a) mining or taking minerals, or digging or searching for minerals;

(b) quarrying or taking stone, marble, gravel, sand, clay, slate or other workable mineral;

(c) using for any estate purpose any springs of water rising on the croft and not required for the use thereof;

(d) cutting or taking timber or peats, excepting timber and other trees planted by the crofter or any of his predecessors in the tenancy, or which may be necessary for ornament or shelter, and excepting also such peats as may be required for the use of the croft;

(e) opening or making roads, fences, drains and water-courses;

(f) passing and re-passing to and from the shore of the sea or any loch with or without vehicles for the purpose of exercising any right of property or other right belonging to the landlord;

(g) viewing or examining at reasonable times the state of the croft and all buildings or improvements thereon;

(h) hunting, shooting, fishing or taking game or fish, wild birds or vermin;

but nothing in this paragraph shall be held to preclude the crofter from recovering any compensation for damage by game which is recoverable under section fifteen of the M2 Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1949, by a tenant, and that section shall apply accordingly, with the substitution, however, of the Land Court for arbitration.

Marginal Citations

M2 1949 c. 75.

11 The crofter shall not on his croft, without the consent in writing of the landlord, open any house for the sale of intoxicating liquors.

12 In this Schedule—

• the expression “cultivate” includes the use of a croft for horticulture or for any purpose of husbandry, including the keeping or breeding of livestock, poultry or bees, and the growing of fruit, vegetables and the like;

• the expression “game” means deer, hares, rabbits, pheasants, partridges, grouse, blackgame, capercailzie, ptarmigan, woodcock, snipe, wild duck, widgeon and teal.