In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings respectively assigned to them—

• “the Act of 1886” means the M1Crofters Holdings (Scotland) Act 1886;

• “the Act of 1911” means the M2Small Landholders (Scotland) Act 1911;

• “croft” and “crofter” have the meanings assigned to them respectively by section three of this Act;

• “the Crofters Holdings Book” has the meaning assigned to it by section thirty-nine of this Act;

• “crofting counties” means the F2former counties of Argyll, Caithness, Inverness, Orkney, Ross and Cromarty, Sutherland and Zetland;

• “fixed equipment” has the like meaning as in the F3Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991;

• “functions” includes powers and duties;

• “Land Court” means the Scottish Land Court;

• “the Landholders Acts” means the Small Landholders (Scotland) Acts 1886 to 1931;

• “landlord” means any person for the time being entitled to receive the rents and profits, or to take possession, of a croft;

• “permanent improvement” means any of the improvements specified in the Fifth Schedule to this Act; F4Provided that no building or other structure erected on a croft shall be held to be a permanent improvement on the croft unless it is a fixture on the land;

• “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State;

• “predecessors in the tenancy” means in relation to a crofter the persons who before him have been tenants of the croft since it was last vacant;

• F5“public road”has the same meaning as in the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984:

• “statutory successor” means any person who under this Act has succeeded or may succeed to a croft whether as F6a person to whom the tenancy of the croft has been transferred in pursuance of section 16(2) of the M3Succession (Scotland) Act 1964 or as the executor, heir-at-law, legatee or assignee of his immediate predecessor being a crofter in occupation of the croft;

• “Whitsunday” and “Martinmas” mean respectively the twenty-eighth day of May and the twenty-eighth day of November.

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References in this Act to any enactment shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed as references to that enactment as amended by or under any other enactment, including this Act.