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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-reform-scotland-act-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-69",
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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/69",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "69",
  "heading": "Valuation etc.: further provision",
  "text": "(1) A valuer appointed under paragraph 67 is—\n(a) to invite the persons mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) to make written representations about the matters mentioned in sub-paragraph (3), and\n(b) to have regard to any such representations.\n(2) The persons are—\n(a) the seller and the small landholder to whom the assessment under paragraph 68 relates, and\n(b) where the land to which the assessment relates forms part of an estate, any other person the valuer considers to have an interest in the estate.\n(3) The matters are—\n(a) the valuation of the land under paragraph 68, and\n(b) where the land forms part of an estate, any valuation of the estate (and any apportionment of a reduction in the value of the estate) under that paragraph.\n(4) The valuer may, for the purposes of any assessment under paragraph 68—\n(a) enter onto land, and\n(b) make any reasonable request of the seller and landholder.\n(5) The valuer must, within the period of 6 weeks beginning with the day on which the valuer is appointed, give the seller and the landholder a notice in writing specifying the price payable by the landholder under paragraph 68(9) and setting out how the price was calculated.\n(6) The expenses of the valuer accrued in carrying out the valuer’s functions under paragraph 68 and this paragraph are to be—\n(a) met by the landholder, or\n(b) where sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 67 applies, shared equally between the landholders mentioned in that sub-paragraph.\n(7) The seller is liable to the landholder for any expenses met by the landholder by virtue of sub-paragraph (6) where—\n(a) the Land Court has made an order under paragraph 66(8),\n(b) the landholder to whom the order applies has complied with the order, and\n(c) the seller does not proceed with the sale of the land to the landholder.\n(8) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make further provision for or in connection with the matters provided for in this paragraph and paragraphs 67 and 68.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 69 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 47(2)"
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