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Crofters Holdings (Scotland) Act 1886
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The Crofters Commission after due inquiry shall ascertain what parishes or islands or districts forming aggregates of parishes, within the counties of Argyll, Inverness, Ross and Cromarty, Sutherland, Caithness, Orkney, and Shetland, are crofting parishes, or aggregates of crofting parishes, and shall determine that this Act shall apply to such parishes.
Such determination shall be reported to the Secretary for Scotland in one or more reports, and may be confirmed by him with or without modification.
From and after the date of such confirmation, this Act shall apply to the parishes included in the determination.
Every such determination, when confirmed, shall be laid before Parliament.
Within the parishes to which this Act is determined to apply as aforesaid, this Act shall apply to every crofter who is the tenant of a holding at the passing of this Act, and to his heirs and legatees, in the same manner as if the tenancy were a lease.
In the event of the heirs at law of the crofter being heirs portioned, the eldest of such heirs portioners shall succeed to the tenancy without division.
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