The provisions of this section shall, in addition to any express provision for the application to Scotland of any provision of this Act, have effect for the general application of this Act to Scotland.

In this Act, except in so far as the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, that is to say—

• F1 “ the Act of 1997 ” means the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997

• “agriculture” has the same meaning as in the M1Agriculture (Scotland) Act 1948, and “agricultural” (except in the expressions “agricultural holding” and “agricultural land”) shall be construed accordingly;

• F18 “ agricultural holding ” has the meaning assigned to it by section one of the Scottish Act of F2 1991 ;

  F18“agricultural holding” means the land comprised in a lease constituting a 1991 Act tenancy within the meaning of the Scottish Act of 2003 or the land comprised in a lease constituting a short limited duration tenancy F23or a limited duration tenancyF23a limited duration tenancy, a modern limited duration tenancy or a repairing tenancy (within the meaning of that Act);

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• F4 “ appropriate Minster ” means—

  1. a

     in relation to statutory undertakers carrying on any railway, light railway, tramway, road transport, dock, harbour or pier undertaking, F5the Minister of Transport;

  2. b

     in relation to statutory undertakers carrying on an undertaking for the supply of gas or hydraulic power, the Secretary of State for Energy;

  3. c

     in relation to the Civil Aviation Authority or statutory undertakers carrying on any lighthouse undertaking, the Secretary of State for Trade;

  4. d

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  5. e

     in relation to statutory undertakers carrying on an undertaking for the supply of . . . F7 water, the Secretary of State for Scotland; and

  6. f

     in all other cases, the Secretary of State for the Environment.

• “chattels” means corporeal moveables;

• “easement” means servitude;

• “freehold interest” means the interest of the owner F19...;

• “land” includes salmon fishings;

• F8“local authority” has the meaning assigned to it by section 235 of the M2Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973;

• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F9“local planning authority”, “statutory undertakers”, “statutory undertaking” , “heritable security”, “heritable creditor”, and “National Trust for Scotland” have the same meanings as in the Scottish Act of 1947 F10(but “statutory undertakers” and “statutory undertaking” do not include a universal service provider within the meaning of F22Part 3 of the Postal Services Act 2011 and his undertaking).;

• “owner” in relation to land, subject to subsection (2) of the last preceding section, means the owner F19...;

• F11“planning permission” means planning permission under Part III of F12Act of 1997

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

• “the Scottish Acquisition of Land Act” means the M3Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act 1947;

• F13“the Act of 1972” means F13the M4Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972;

• F2“the Scottish Act of 1991” means the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991;.

For any reference to a F14water authoritythere shall F15, except in so far as the context otherwise requires,be substituted a reference to F16the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.

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