{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crofters-holdings-scotland-act-1886/section-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crofters-holdings-scotland-act-1886/section-34.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/34",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n“Cottar” means the occupier of a dwelling-house situate in a crofting parish with or without land who pays no rent to the landlord, as also the tenant from year to year of a dwelling-house situated in a crofting parish who resides therein, and who pays to the landlord thereafter an annual rent not exceeding six pounds in money, whether with or without garden ground, but without arable or pasture land.\n“Permanent improvements” means the improvements specified in the Schedule to this Act.\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nOther expressions have the same meanings as in the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1883.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Definitions of “Crofter” and “Crofting parish” repealed by Small Landholders (Scotland) Act 1911 (c. 49), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Definitions of “Holding” and “Treasury” repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1898 (c. 22) and Small Landholders (Scotland) Act 1911 (c. 49), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1883 c. 62."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 34 amended by Small Landholders (Scotland) Act 1911 (c. 49), s. 2; 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/34",
    "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."
}