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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crofting-reform-scotland-act-1976/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1976/21",
  "legislation_title": "Crofting Reform (Scotland) Act 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crofting-reform-scotland-act-1976",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to confer new rights on crofters and cottars to acquire subjects tenanted or occupied by them; to confer rights on crofters to share in the value of land resumed by landlords or taken possession of compulsorily; to protect the interests of crofters and cottars from planning blight; to make further provision as to financial assistance for crofters, cottars and certain owner-occupiers of certain land; to make further provision as to the removal of land from crofting tenure; to amend the law with respect to common grazings; to extend the powers of the Scottish Land Court; to make provision for pensions and compensation for members of the Crofters Commission; and for connected purposes.\n[10th June 1976]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Whole Act except s. 17 repealed (5.1.1994) by 1993 c. 44, ss. 63(2), 64(2), Sch. 7 Pt. II (with s. 30(5), Sch. 6 para. 4)."
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    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3"
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      "text": "Act wholly in force at Royal Assent."
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  "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."
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