{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-reform-scotland-act-2003/section-76",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-reform-scotland-act-2003/section-76.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2003/2",
  "legislation_title": "Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-reform-scotland-act-2003",
  "path": "section/76",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "76",
  "heading": "Right to buy same croft land exercisable by only one crofting community body",
  "text": "(1) Only one crofting community body may exercise the right under this Part of this Act to buy the same land , tenant's interest or sporting interests.\n(2) Where two or more such bodies have applied to buy the same land or sporting interests, it is for Ministers to decide which is to proceed.\n(3) Ministers may not make such a decision unless they have had regard to all views on each of the applications, and responses thereto, which they have received in answer to invitations under section 73 above.\n(4) On Ministers so deciding—\n(a) the other body’s right to buy the land or tenant's interest which is, or the sporting interests which are the subject of the body’s application is, so far as proceeding on that application, extinguished; and\n(b) they shall notify—\n(i) each person invited, under section 73(8)(a), to send them views on the application,\n(ii) the bodies,\nof that fact.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 76(1) inserted (25.6.2007) by Crofting Reform etc. Act 2007 (asp 7), ss. 39, 43, Sch. 1 para. 5(6)(a) (with ss. 40, 43(2)); S.S.I. 2007/269, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 76(4)(a) inserted (25.6.2007) by Crofting Reform etc. Act 2007 (asp 7), ss. 39, 43, Sch. 1 para. 5(6)(b)(i) (with ss. 40, 43(2)); S.S.I. 2007/269, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 76(4)(b)(i) substituted (24.2.2021) by Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 6), ss. 67, 142(1); S.S.I. 2020/448, art. 2 (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2003/2/section/76",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:55.533003+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."
}