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  "legislation": "ukpga/1970/35",
  "legislation_title": "Conveyancing and Feudal Reform (Scotland) Act 1970",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to provide as respects Scotland for the variation and discharge of certain obligations relating to land; to facilitate the allocation of feuduties and ground annuals; to reduce the period of positive prescription of 20 years to 10 years; to provide for a new form of heritable security; to make certain amendments to the existing law relating to heritable securities; to make certain other amendments to the law relating to conveyancing; to abolish the rights of pre-emption of heritors in respect of glebes; to amend the Lands Tribunal Act 1949; and for connected purposes.\n[29th May 1970]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3"
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      "type": "I",
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      "text": "Act partly in force at Royal Assent see s. 54(2); Act wholly in force at 1.3.1971"
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  "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."
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