{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crofting-reform-scotland-act-2010/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crofting-reform-scotland-act-2010/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2010/14",
  "legislation_title": "Crofting Reform (Scotland) Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crofting-reform-scotland-act-2010",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Resumed and decrofted crofts",
  "text": "(1) The Keeper must—\n(a) where subsection (2) applies, remove the entry in the register relating to the resumed croft;\n(b) where subsection (3) applies, remove the entry in the register relating to the croft in relation to which a decrofting direction has been made.\n(2) This subsection applies where—\n(a) a registered croft has been resumed (whether before or after it was first registered) by virtue of an authorisation under section 20(1) of the 1993 Act;\n(b) no order has been made under section 21A(1) of that Act that the land so resumed revert to being a croft; and\n(c) the period of 20 years beginning with when the resumption was authorised has ended.\n(3) This subsection applies where—\n(a) a decrofting direction under section 24(2) or (3) or, as the case may be, 24B(1) of the 1993 Act was made in relation to a registered croft (whether made before or after it was first registered);\n(aa) in the case of a decrofting direction under section 24B(1), the Commission have not revoked the direction under section 25(3);\n(b) the Land Court has not revoked the direction by virtue of section 25(8B) of that Act or by virtue of any other enactment; and\n(c) the period of 20 years beginning with the making of the direction has ended.\n(4) This section applies to a part of a croft as it applies to a whole croft with the modification that references in subsection (1) to removing entries in the register are to be read as references to modifying such entries.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 15(3)(a) substituted (retrospective to 1.10.2011) by Crofting (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2013 (asp 10), ss. 3, 6, Sch. para. 2(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 15(3)(aa) inserted (retrospective to 1.10.2011) by Crofting (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2013 (asp 10), ss. 3, 6, Sch. para. 2(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 15 in force at 30.11.2012 by S.S.I. 2012/288, art. 3(1)(b)(2), Sch. 1 Pt. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2010/14/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:21.484740+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."
}