# Agriculture (Scotland) Act 1948, Section 66: Recovery of loans in the event of failure of statutory successor.


Section eight of the Small Landholders(Scotland) Act, 1911 (which contains provisions regulating loans tolandholders) shall have effect as if after subsection (1) there wereinserted the following subsection—
“(2) In the event of failure of a statutory successor taking place or being deemed under section twenty-two of this Act to have taken place the landlord shall be liable to repay to the Board the amount of any outstanding liability in respect of a loan made under the immediatly preceeding section:
Provided that the Board shall not be entitled to recover from thelandlord under this subsection any sum in excess of such amount as maybe agreed or, in the event of dispute, be assessed by the Land Court to be the amount which would have been due by the landlord by way of compensation for permanent improvements if the holding had been renounced at the date at which failure of a statutory successor took place or was deemed as aforesaid to have taken place.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/11-12/45/section/66 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-scotland-act-1948/section-66
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