# Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2025, Paragraph 59: Owner’s challenge to registration

Extent: S
Status: prospective

(1) This paragraph applies where the Keeper gives the owner of land comprising a small landholding, under paragraph 58(4)(b), an extract of the registration of the small landholder’s interest in buying the land comprising the holding.
(2) The owner may, by notice in writing to the Keeper, challenge the registration on the grounds that any matter contained in the extract is inaccurate.
(3) On receipt of notice under sub-paragraph (2), the Keeper is to make such enquiry in connection with the landholder’s interest as the Keeper considers appropriate.
(4) If, following such an enquiry, the Keeper considers that the notice of interest is inaccurate, the Keeper—
(a) must, if the inaccuracy is material, rescind the registration of the landholder’s interest,
(b) may, if the inaccuracy is not material, amend the registration.
(5) Where, under sub-paragraph (4)—
(a) the registration is rescinded, the Keeper must intimate that fact to the landholder and the owner,
(b) the registration is amended, the Keeper must give an extract of the registration to the landholder and the owner.
(6) The landholder or the owner may appeal to the Land Court against any decision made, following notice under sub-paragraph (2), by the Keeper in respect of the registration.
(7) The Court may make such order as it considers appropriate in an appeal under sub-paragraph (6).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/15/schedule/2/paragraph/59 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/land-reform-scotland-act-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-59
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