{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crofters-holdings-scotland-act-1886/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crofters-holdings-scotland-act-1886/section-7.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/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Renunciation of tenancy.",
  "text": "A crofter shall be entitled, upon one year’s notice in writing to the landlord, to renounce his tenancy as at any term of Whitsunday or Martinmas.\nProvided that such notice shall not, without the consent of the Land Court, be effective unless, within two months from the date of notice, the landlord or the landholder intimates the same in writing to the Board, and provided further that, except by agreement with the Board, the landholder shall not, without the like consent, be entitled to renounce his tenancy so long as any liability owing by him to the Board is not wholly discharged.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Proviso added by Small Landholders (Scotland) Act 1911 (c. 49), s. 18"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 7 amended by Small Landholders and Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1931 (c. 44), ss. 11, 22; 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/7",
    "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."
}