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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-reform-scotland-act-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-66",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-reform-scotland-act-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-66.json",
  "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/66",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "66",
  "heading": "Procedure for buying",
  "text": "(1) It is for the small landholder to make the offer to buy in exercise of the landholder’s right to buy under paragraph 63.\n(2) The offer is to be at a price—\n(a) agreed between the landholder and the person from whom the land is to be bought (in this Part, “the seller”), or\n(b) where there is no such agreement—\n(i) payable by the landholder in accordance with paragraph 68(9), or\n(ii) if the price is determined in an appeal under paragraph 70, as is so determined.\n(3) The offer must specify the date of entry and of payment of the price in accordance with sub-paragraph (4).\n(4) The date of entry and of payment of the price is to be—\n(a) a date not later than 6 months after the date on which the landholder gave notice under paragraph 64 of the landholder’s intention to buy,\n(b) where the price payable by the landholder is the subject of an appeal under paragraph 70 which has not, within the period of 4 months beginning with the day on which the landholder gave such notice, been—\n(i) determined, or\n(ii) abandoned following agreement between the landholder and the seller,\na date not later than 2 months after the appeal is so determined or (as the case may be) abandoned, or\n(c) such later date as may be agreed between the landholder and the seller.\n(5) The offer may include such other reasonable conditions as are necessary or expedient to secure the efficient progress and completion of the transfer.\n(6) If the landholder has not, within the period fixed by or agreed under sub-paragraph (4), done any of the things mentioned in sub-paragraph (7), the seller may apply to the Land Court for an order under sub-paragraph (8).\n(7) The things are—\n(a) concluding missives with the seller for the sale of the land to the landholder, or\n(b) if the landholder has not so concluded missives, taking all steps which the landholder could reasonably have taken in the time available towards so concluding missives.\n(8) An order under this sub-paragraph may—\n(a) direct the landholder—\n(i) to conclude missives with the seller within such period as may be specified in the order, and\n(ii) to take such remedial action for the purpose of so concluding missives as may be so specified, and\n(b) direct the landholder and seller to incorporate into the missives any term or condition in respect of the sale of the land as may be so specified.\n(9) The right to buy mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) is extinguished if—\n(a) the landholder fails to comply with an order under sub-paragraph (8), or\n(b) where the seller has not applied for an order under that sub-paragraph, the landholder has not (having regard to the period fixed by or agreed under sub-paragraph (4)) within a reasonable period from the acquiring by the landholder of the right to buy otherwise concluded missives with the seller for the sale of the land to the landholder.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 66 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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      "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 by 1931 c. 44, s. 14(3) (as inserted)",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/15/schedule/2/paragraph/66",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:11:52.301495+00:00"
  },
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  "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."
}