{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crofting-and-scottish-land-court-act-2026/section-53",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crofting-and-scottish-land-court-act-2026/section-53.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2026/17",
  "legislation_title": "Crofting and Scottish Land Court Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crofting-and-scottish-land-court-act-2026",
  "path": "section/53",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "Chairing of Commission meetings and committees",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 1 of the 1993 Act (the Crofting Commission) is modified as follows.\n(2) In paragraph 12, after sub-paragraph (2) insert—\n“(2A) The Commission must appoint a chair for each of their committees.”.\n(3) In paragraph 13—\n(a) for sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) substitute—\n“(2) The chair of the Commission may delegate the chairing of a meeting of the Commission (or a part of such a meeting) to another member.\n(3) The chair of a committee may delegate the chairing of a meeting of the committee (or a part of such meeting) to another member of the committee.”,\n(b) in sub-paragraph (4), after “vote” insert “(but a person chairing only part of a meeting does not have a casting vote in respect of that part)”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 53 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 66(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2026/17/section/53",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:11:39.364810+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."
}