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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crofting-community-development-scheme-scotland-regulations-2001/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2001/208",
  "legislation_title": "The Crofting Community Development Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crofting-community-development-scheme-scotland-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires–\n“the 1993 Act” means the Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993;\n“application” means an application for financial assistance under the Scheme made in accordance with regulations 4 and 5 and “applicants” and “apply” shall be construed accordingly;\n“approved” means approved by the Scottish Ministers in writing and “approve” and “approval” shall be construed accordingly;\n“the Community legislation” means–\n(a) Council Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 of 17th May 1999 on support for rural development from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) and amending and repealing certain Regulations; and\n(b) Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/1999 of 21st June 1999 laying down general provisions on the Structural Funds;\n(c) Council Regulation (EC) No. 438/2001 of 2nd March 2001 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1260/1999; and\n(d) Commission Regulation (EC) No 1750/1999 of 23rd July 1999 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 on support for rural development from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF);\n“croft” has the same meaning as in section 3 of the 1993 Act;\n“crofting community” means the residents of a township or district within the crofting counties, some or all of whom are the owners, tenants or sub-tenants of crofts situated within that township or district;\n“the crofting counties” has the same meaning as in section 61(1) of the 1993 Act;\n“eligible applicants” means a grazings committee or any group in a crofting community the majority of whose members are occupiers of crofts;\n“grazings committee” means a committee appointed under section 47 of the 1993 Act and shall include a grazings constable appointed under that section;\n“plan co-ordinator” means the clerk to a common grazings committee or a grazings constable or the member of any eligible applicants who is responsible for the implementation of any development plan prepared for the purposes of these Regulations;\n“scheme area” means the area of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland known as the crofting counties;\n“the Scheme” means the Crofting Community Development Scheme being a measure to assist rural communities described at Priority 4, Sub-Priority (a), Measure 3, Sub-Measure (i) of the Highlands and Islands Special Transitional Programme approved by Commission Decision of 8th August 2000 on the adoption of the Single Programming Document for the Highlands and Islands Special Transitional Programme.\n(2) References in these Regulations to a numbered regulation or to a numbered Schedule shall be construed as a reference to the regulation so numbered in or the Schedule so numbered to these Regulations.\n(3) A reference in these Regulations to anything done in writing or produced in written form includes a reference to an electronic communication, as defined in the Electronic Communications Act 2000, which has been recorded and is consequently capable of being reproduced.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1993 c. 44."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "O.J. No. L 160, 26.6.99, p.80."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "O.J. No. L 161, 26.6.99, p.1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "O.J. No. L 063, 03.03.01, p.21."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "O.J. No. L 214, 13.8.99, p.31."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "2000 c. 7."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2001/208/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:46:24.668173+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."
}