{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crofters-holdings-scotland-act-1886/section-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crofters-holdings-scotland-act-1886/section-20.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/49-50/29",
  "legislation_title": "Crofters Holdings (Scotland) Act 1886",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crofters-holdings-scotland-act-1886",
  "path": "section/20",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Procedure in fixing fair rent.",
  "text": "When an application is made to the Crofters Commission to fix a fair rent, intimation thereof shall be given to the other party interested in the holding, landlord or crofter, as the case may be, and the Crofters Commission shall appoint a time and place at which parties shall be heard in reference to the matter of the application.\nIt shall be competent for the Commissioners in case of such application to visit the holding, if they think fit, as also to call in the aid of an assessor or assessors, specially qualified by local knowledge or otherwise, and to hear the case wholly or partially with the aid of such assessor or assessors, or they may obtain a valuation or report from a competent valuer or valuers appointed by them for the purpose.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 20 applied with modifications by Small Landholders (Scotland) Act 1911 (c. 49), s. 32(14); restricted by Crofters (Scotland) Act 1955 (3 & 4 Eliz. 2 c. 21), s. 38(3), Sch. 6 Pt. I"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/49-50/29/section/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:37:30.959995+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."
}