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Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000

2000 asp 5 · Enacted 9 June 2000 · Extends to Scotland

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An Act of the Scottish Parliament to abolish the feudal system of land tenure; to abolish a related system of land tenure; to make new provision as respects the ownership of land; to make consequential provision for the extinction and recovery of feuduties and of certain other perpetual periodical payments and for the extinction by prescription of any obligation to pay redemption money under the Land Tenure Reform (Scotland) Act 1974; to make further provision as respects real burdens affecting land; to provide for the disentailment of land; to discharge all rights of irritancy held by superiors; to abolish the obligation of thirlage; to prohibit with certain exceptions the granting of leases over land for periods exceeding 175 years; to make new provision as respects conveyancing; to enable firms with separate personality to own land; and for connected purposes.

The Bill for this Act of the Scottish Parliament was passed by the Parliament on 3rd May 2000 and received Royal Assent on 9th June 2000.

Contents

  1. Part 1: ABOLITION OF FEUDAL TENURE
  2. 1Abolition on appointed day
  3. 2Consequences of abolition
  4. 3Amendment of Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979
  5. Part 2: LAND TRANSFERS ETC. ON AND AFTER APPOINTED DAY
  6. 4Ownership of land Repealed
  7. 5Form of application for recording deed in Register of Sasines
  8. 6Deduction of title for unregistered land etc.
  9. Part 3: FEUDUTIES
  10. Extinction of feuduties
  11. 7Extinction on appointed day
  12. 8Requiring compensatory payment
  13. 9Calculation of amount of compensatory payment
  14. 10Making compensatory payment by instalments
  15. 11Service under section 8(1)
  16. 12Extinction by prescription of requirement to make compensatory payment
  17. Arrears
  18. 13Arrears of feuduty etc.
  19. Disclosure
  20. 14Duty of collecting third party to disclose information
  21. 15Duty to disclose identity etc. of former vassal
  22. Interpretation
  23. 16Interpretation of Part 3
  24. Part 4: REAL BURDENS
  25. Extinction of superior’s rights
  26. 17Extinction of superior’s rights
  27. Reallotment etc.
  28. 18Reallotment of real burden by nomination of new dominant tenement
  29. 18APersonal pre-emption burdens and personal redemption burdens
  30. 18BConversion into economic development burden
  31. 18CConversion into health care burden
  32. 19Reallotment of real burden by agreement
  33. 20Reallotment of real burden by order of Lands Tribunal
  34. 21Manner of dealing with application under section 20
  35. 22Amendment of Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1992
  36. 23Reallotment of real burden affecting facility of benefit to other land etc. Repealed
  37. 24Interest to enforce real burden
  38. 25Counter-obligations on reallotment
  39. Conservation burdens
  40. 26Conservation bodies Repealed
  41. 27Notice preserving right to enforce conservation burden
  42. 27ANomination of conservation body or Scottish Ministers to have title to enforce conservation burden
  43. 28Enforcement of conservation burden
  44. 28AEffect of section 27A nomination
  45. 29Assignation of right to conservation burden Repealed
  46. 30Deduction of title for conservation burden Repealed
  47. 31Extinction of burden on body ceasing to be conservation body Repealed
  48. 32No standard security over conservation burden Repealed
  49. Compensation
  50. 33Notice reserving right to claim compensation where land subject to development value burden
  51. 34Transmissibility of right to claim compensation[j074.doc]
  52. 35Claiming compensation
  53. 36Service under section 35(3)
  54. 37Amount of compensation
  55. 38Duty to disclose identity of owner
  56. 39The expression “owner” for purposes of sections 35 to 38
  57. 40Assignation, discharge, or restriction, of reserved right to claim compensation
  58. Miscellaneous
  59. 41Notices: pre-registration requirements etc.
  60. 42Further provision as respects sections 18 to 20, 27 and 33
  61. 43Notices and agreements under certain sections: extent of Keeper’s duty
  62. 44Referral to Lands Tribunal of notice dispute
  63. 45Circumstances where certain notices may be registered after appointed day
  64. 46Duties of Keeper: amendments relating to the extinction of certain real burdens Repealed
  65. 47Extinction of counter-obligation
  66. 48No implication as to dominant tenement where real burden created in grant in feu
  67. Interpretation
  68. 49Interpretation of Part 4
  69. Part 5: ENTAILS
  70. 50Disentailment on appointed day
  71. 51Compensation for expectancy or interest of apparent or other nearest heir in an entailed estate
  72. 52Closure of Register of Entails
  73. Part 6: MISCELLANEOUS
  74. Discharge of certain rights and extinction of certain obligations and payments
  75. 53Discharge of rights of irritancy
  76. 54Extinction of superior’s rights and obligations qua superior
  77. 55Abolition of thirlage
  78. 56Extinction etc. of certain payments analogous to feuduty
  79. 57Extinction by prescription of obligation to pay redemption money for feuduty, ground annual etc.
  80. The Crown, the Lord Lyon and Barony
  81. 58Crown application
  82. 59Crown may sell or otherwise dispose of land by disposition
  83. 60Preserved right of Crown to maritime burdens
  84. 61Mines of gold and silver
  85. 62Jurisdiction and prerogative of Lord Lyon
  86. 63Baronies and other dignities and offices
  87. Kindly Tenants of Lochmaben
  88. 64Abolition of Kindly Tenancies
  89. Miscellaneous
  90. 65Creation of proper liferent Repealed
  91. 65ASporting rights
  92. 66Obligation to make title deeds and searches available
  93. 67Prohibition on leases for periods of more than 175 years
  94. 68Certain applications to Sheriff of Chancery
  95. 69Application of 1970 Act to earlier forms of heritable security
  96. 70Ownership of land by a firm
  97. Part 7: GENERAL
  98. 71The appointed day
  99. 72Interpretation
  100. 73Feudal terms in enactments and documents: construction after abolition of feudal system
  101. 74Orders, regulations and rules
  102. 75Saving for contractual rights
  103. 76Minor and consequential amendments, repeals and power to amend or repeal enactments
  104. 77Short title and commencement
  105. Schedule 1FORM OF NOTICE REQUIRING COMPENSATORY PAYMENT ETC.:CUMULO FEUDUTY
  106. Schedule 2FORM OF NOTICE REQUIRING COMPENSATORY PAYMENT ETC.: ORDINARY CASE
  107. Schedule 3FORM OF INSTALMENT DOCUMENT
  108. Schedule 4: PROCEDURES AS TO SERVICE UNDER SECTION 8(1)
  109. Part FORM A
  110. Paragraph
  111. Part FORM B
  112. Paragraph
  113. Schedule 5: FORM OF NOTICE PROSPECTIVELY NOMINATING DOMINANT TENEMENT
  114. Paragraph
  116. Notes for completion of the notice
  117. 1Paragraph 1
  118. 2Paragraph 2
  119. 3Paragraph 3
  120. 4Paragraph 4
  121. 5Paragraph 5
  122. 6Paragraph 6
  123. 7Paragraph 7
  124. Schedule 5A: Form of notice prospectively converting real burden into personal pre-emption burden or personal redemption burden
  125. Paragraph
  126. Explanatory Note
  127. Paragraph
  128. Paragraph
  129. Paragraph
  130. Paragraph
  131. Notes for completion of the notice
  132. Paragraph
  133. 1Paragraph 1
  134. 2Paragraph 2
  135. 3Paragraph 3
  136. 4Paragraph 4
  137. 5Paragraph 5
  138. 6Paragraph 6
  139. Schedule 5B: Form of notice prospectively converting real burden into economic development burden
  140. Paragraph
  141. Explanatory Note
  142. Paragraph
  143. Paragraph
  144. Paragraph
  145. Paragraph
  146. Notes for completion of the notice
  147. Paragraph
  148. 1Paragraph 1
  149. 2Paragraph 2
  150. 3Paragraph 3
  151. 4Paragraph 4
  152. 5Paragraph 5
  153. Schedule 5C: Form of notice prospectively converting real burden into health care burden
  154. Paragraph
  155. Explanatory Note
  156. Paragraph
  157. Paragraph
  158. Paragraph
  159. Paragraph
  160. Notes for completion of the notice
  161. Paragraph
  162. 1Paragraph 1
  163. 2Paragraph 2
  164. 3Paragraph 3
  165. 4Paragraph 4
  166. 5Paragraph 5
  167. Schedule 6: FORM OF NOTICE SEEKING AGREEMENT TO THE PROSPECTIVE NOMINATION OF A DOMINANT TENEMENT
  168. Paragraph
  170. Notes for completion of the notice
  171. 1Paragraph 1
  172. 2Paragraph 2
  173. 3Paragraph 3
  174. 4Paragraph 4
  175. 5Paragraph 5
  176. Schedule 7: FORM OF NOTICE INTIMATING APPLICATION TO LANDS TRIBUNAL UNDER SECTION 20(1)
  177. Paragraph
  179. Notes for completion of the notice
  180. 1Paragraph 1
  181. 2Paragraph 2
  182. 3Paragraph 3
  183. 4Paragraph 4
  184. 5Paragraph 5
  185. 6Paragraph 6
  186. 7Paragraph 7
  187. Schedule 8: FORM OF NOTICE PRESERVING CONSERVATION BODY’S OR SCOTTISH MINISTERS’ RIGHT TO REAL BURDEN
  188. Paragraph
  190. Notes for completion of the notice
  191. 1Paragraph 1
  192. 2Paragraph 2
  193. 3Paragraph 3
  194. 4Paragraph 4
  195. 5Paragraph 5
  196. 6Paragraph 6
  197. Schedule 8A: Form of notice nominating conservation body or Scottish Ministers to have title to enforce real burden
  198. Paragraph
  199. Explanatory note
  200. Paragraph
  201. Paragraph
  202. Paragraph
  203. Paragraph
  204. Notes for completion of the notice
  205. Paragraph
  206. 1Paragraph 1
  207. 2Paragraph 2
  208. 3Paragraph 3
  209. 4Paragraph 4
  210. 5Paragraph 5
  211. 6Paragraph 6
  212. 7Paragraph 7
  213. 8Paragraph 8
  214. Schedule 9: FORM OF NOTICE RESERVING RIGHT TO COMPENSATION IN RESPECT OF EXTINCTION OF DEVELOPMENT VALUE BURDEN
  215. Paragraph
  217. Notes for completion of notice
  218. 1Paragraph 1
  219. 2Paragraph 2
  220. 3Paragraph 3
  221. 4Paragraph 4
  222. 5Paragraph 5
  223. 6Paragraph 6
  224. 7Paragraph 7
  225. 8Paragraph 8
  226. 9Paragraph 9
  227. Schedule 10: PROCEDURES AS TO SERVICE UNDER SECTION 35(3)
  228. Part FORM A
  229. Paragraph
  230. Part FORM B
  231. Paragraph
  232. Schedule 11: FORM OF ASSIGNATION, DISCHARGE OR RESTRICTION OF RESERVED RIGHT TO CLAIM COMPENSATION
  233. Paragraph
  234. Schedule 11A: Form of notice prospectively converting sporting rights into tenement in land
  235. Paragraph
  236. Explanatory note
  237. Paragraph
  238. Paragraph
  239. Paragraph
  240. Paragraph
  241. Paragraph
  242. Notes for completion of the notice
  243. Paragraph
  244. 1Paragraph 1
  245. 2Paragraph 2
  246. 3Paragraph 3
  247. 4Paragraph 4
  248. 5Paragraph 5
  249. 6Paragraph 6
  250. Schedule 12: MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS
  251. Part 1: MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS: GENERAL
  252. 1Mines and Metals Act 1592 (c.31) (Act of the Parliaments of Scotland)
  253. 2Redemptions Act 1661 (c.247) (Act of the Parliaments of Scotland) Repealed
  254. 3Real Rights Act 1693 (c.22) (Act of the Parliaments of Scotland)
  255. 4Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1845 (c.19)
  256. 5Entail Amendment Act 1848 (c.36)
  257. 6Registration of Leases (Scotland) Act 1857 (c.26)
  258. 7Land Registers (Scotland) Act 1868 (c.64)
  259. 8Titles to Land Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1868 (c.101)
  260. 9Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1874 (c.94)
  261. 10Writs Execution (Scotland) Act 1877 (c.40)
  262. 11Conveyancing (Scotland) Acts (1874 and 1879) Amendment Act 1887 (c.69)
  263. 12Military Lands Act 1892 (c.43)
  264. 13Heritable Securities (Scotland) Act 1894 (c.44)
  265. 14Entail (Scotland) Act 1914 (c.43)
  266. 15Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1924 (c.27)
  267. 16Church of Scotland (Property and Endowments) Act 1925 (c.33)
  268. 17Church of Scotland (Property and Endowments) Amendment Act 1933 (c.44)
  269. 18Conveyancing Amendment (Scotland) Act 1938 (c.24)
  270. 19National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 (c.97)
  271. 20Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1954 (c.73)
  272. 21Land Powers (Defence) Act 1958 (c.30)
  273. 22Opencast Coal Act 1958 (c.69)
  274. 23Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 (c.62)
  275. 24Flood Prevention (Scotland) Act 1961 (c.41) Repealed
  276. 25Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1963 (c.51)
  277. 26Local Government (Development and Finance)(Scotland) Act 1964 (c.67)
  278. 27Forestry Act 1967 (c.10)
  279. 28Countryside (Scotland) Act 1967 (c.86)
  280. 29Countryside Act 1968 (c.41)
  281. 30Conveyancing and Feudal Reform (Scotland) Act 1970 (c.35)
  282. 31Agriculture Act 1970 (c.40) Repealed
  283. 32Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1972 (c.46)
  284. 33Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973 (c.52)
  285. 34Paragraph 34
  286. 35Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1973 (c.56)
  287. 36Offshore Petroleum Development (Scotland) Act 1975 (c.8)
  288. 37Scottish Development Agency Act 1975 (c.69)
  289. 38Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act 1977 (c.3)
  290. 39Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979 (c.33)
  291. 40Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 (c.46)
  292. 41Education (Scotland) Act 1980 (c.44)
  293. 42Water (Scotland) Act 1980 (c.45)
  294. 43British Telecommunications Act 1981 (c.38)
  295. 44Mobile Homes Act 1983 (c.34)
  296. 45Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c.54)
  297. 46Companies Act 1985 (c.6)
  298. 47Housing Associations Act 1985 (c.69)
  299. 48Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (c.26)
  300. 49Consumer Protection Act 1987 (c.43) Repealed
  301. 50Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c.1)
  302. 51Capital Allowances Act 1990 (c.1)
  303. 52Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990 (c.35)
  304. 53Natural Heritage (Scotland) Act 1991 (c.28)
  305. 54Coal Mining Subsidence Act 1991 (c.45)
  306. 55Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993 (c.44)
  307. 56Coal Industry Act 1994 (c.21)
  308. 57Value Added Tax Act 1994 (c.23)
  309. 58Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995 (c.7)
  310. 59Atomic Energy Authority Act 1995 (c.37)
  311. 60Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 (c.8)
  312. 61Finance Act 1999 (c.16)
  313. Part 2: MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS RELATING TO THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR SCOTLAND
  314. 62National Trust for Scotland Order Confirmation Act 1935 (c.ii)
  315. 63National Trust for Scotland Order Confirmation Act 1947 (c.xxxviii)
  316. Schedule 13: REPEALS
  317. 1REPEALS: GENERAL
  318. 2REPEALS RELATING TO THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR SCOTLAND