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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crofters-etc-building-grants-scotland-regulations-1990/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/944",
  "legislation_title": "The Crofters etc. Building Grants (Scotland) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crofters-etc-building-grants-scotland-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them:–\n“the Act of 1955” means the Crofters (Scotland) Act 1955;\n“the Act of 1976” means the Crofting Reform (Scotland) Act 1976;\n“cottar” has the same meaning as in section 28(4) of the Act of 1955;\n“croft” has the same meaning as in section 3(1) of the Act of 1955;\n“croft land” has the same meaning as in section 1(3) of the Act of 1976;\n“crofter” means the tenant of a croft and includes a person deemed by virtue of section 22(6) of the Act of 1955 to be a crofter for the purposes of section 22(2) of that Act;\n“grant” means such assistance by way of grant as is mentioned in section 22(2) of the Act of 1955;\n“landlord” in relation to a crofter (other than a person deemed by virtue of section 22(6) of the Act of 1955 to be a crofter) has the same meaning as in section 37(1) of that Act and in relation to a cottar means the landlord of the site upon which is or is proposed to be erected, improved or rebuilt a dwellinghouse to which an application for grant or, as the case may be, a grant relates;\n“owner-occupier” means–\n(a) the owner of a holding to which section 31 of the Act of 1955 applies who has applied for a grant or, as the case may be, to whom the Secretary of State has decided to make or has made a grant under subsection (1) of that section; or\n(b) a person who, after the passing of the Act of 1976 has applied for a grant or, as the case may be, to whom the Secretary of State has decided to make or has made a grant under section 22(2) of the Act of 1955 as read with section 12(1) of the Act of 1976 and who is —\n(i) a crofter who has acquired the site of the dwelling house on or pertaining to his croft; or\n(ii) the nominee of such a crofter, being a member of his family, to whom the site has been conveyed by the landlord of the croft; or\n(iii) a member of such a crofter’s family who has acquired the title to the site from that crofter or such nominee; or\n(iv) a cottar who has acquired the site of the dwellinghouse on or pertaining to his subject;\n“statutory successor” has the same meaning as in section 37(1) of the Act of 1955;\n“the recorded conditions” in relation to a dwellinghouse means the conditions set out in the notice recorded in relation to that dwellinghouse in the Register of Sasines in accordance with regulation 4 of these Regulations;\n“the work” means erection, improvement or rebuilding towards which the Secretary of State has decided to make or has made a grant.\n(2) In these Regulations any reference to the recipient of a grant includes a reference–\n(a) in the case of a crofter, to any other crofter who becomes tenant of the croft whether as a statutory successor or otherwise and to any person who becomes owner-occupier of the croft;\n(b) in the case of a cottar, to any person who succeeds him as tenant of the dwellinghouse in respect of which the grant in question is made; and\n(c) in the case of an owner-occupier or a person deemed by section 22(6) of the Act of 1955 to be a crofter, to the heirs and successors whomsoever of the owner-occupier or of that person as the case may be.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1976 c. 21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/944/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:21:06.447369+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."
}