{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/abolition-of-feudal-tenure-etc-scotland-act-2000/section-57",
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  "legislation": "asp/2000/5",
  "legislation_title": "Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/abolition-of-feudal-tenure-etc-scotland-act-2000",
  "path": "section/57",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "57",
  "heading": "Extinction by prescription of obligation to pay redemption money for feuduty, ground annual etc.",
  "text": "Notwithstanding the terms of Schedule 1 to the Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973 (c.52) (which defines obligations affected by prescriptive periods of five years), any obligation under section 5 (redemption of feuduty, ground annual etc. on transfer for valuable consideration) or 6 (redemption of feuduty, ground annual etc. on compulsory acquisition) of the Land Tenure Reform (Scotland) Act 1974 (c.38) to pay redemption money is an obligation to which section 6 of that Act of 1973 (extinction of obligation by prescriptive period of five years) applies; and for the purposes of that application, the reference in subsection (1) of section 6 of that Act of 1973 to the\n“appropriate date” is a reference to the date of redemption within the meaning of—\n(a)except in the case mentioned in paragraph (b) below, section 5 (read, as the case may be, with section 6(2)(a)); or\n(b)in the case of an obligation arising out of the acquisition of land by means of a general vesting declaration, section 6(4),\nof that Act of 1974.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2000/5/section/57",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:27.282357+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}