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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-reform-scotland-act-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-50",
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  "legislation": "asp/2025/15",
  "legislation_title": "Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-reform-scotland-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/50",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Appointment of valuer by Tenant Farming Commissioner",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where the Tenant Farming Commissioner is given an application under paragraph 49.\n(2) The Commissioner must appoint a person (referred to in this Part as the “valuer”) to carry out the assessment mentioned in paragraph 53(1).\n(3) A person may be appointed as the valuer only where the person appears to the Commissioner—\n(a) to be independent of the landlord and the small landholder, and\n(b) to possess qualifications, knowledge and experience suitable for assessing the compensation that may be payable to landlords and landholders of small landholdings.\n(4) The valuer must be appointed before the end of the period of 28 days beginning with the date on which the application is given.\n(5) The Commissioner must give notice in writing to the landlord and the landholder of the name and address of the valuer appointed under sub-paragraph (2).\n(6) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations modify the period specified in sub-paragraph (4).",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 50 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 47(2)"
    }
  ],
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      "type": "applied (with modifications) by 1911 c. 49, s. 32(14A) (as inserted)",
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      "affecting_title": "Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2025"
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      "type": "applied (with modifications) by 1911 c. 49, s. 32(14A) (as inserted)",
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      "affecting_title": "Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2025"
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      "type": "applied (with modifications) by 1911 c. 49, s. 32(14A) (as inserted)",
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      "type": "applied (with modifications) by 1911 c. 49, s. 32(14A) (as inserted)",
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      "affecting_title": "Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied (with modifications) by 1911 c. 49, s. 32(14A) (as inserted)",
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      "affecting_title": "Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied by 1931 c. 44, s. 14(3) (as inserted)",
      "affecting": "asp/2025/15",
      "affecting_title": "Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/15/schedule/2/paragraph/50",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:11:52.301495+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."
}