{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-etc-scotland-act-2012/section-12",
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  "legislation": "asp/2012/5",
  "legislation_title": "Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-etc-scotland-act-2012",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Cadastral units",
  "text": "(1) A cadastral unit is a unit which represents a single registered plot of land.\n(2) Subject to subsection (3), the same area of land cannot be represented by more than one cadastral unit.\n(3) The Keeper need not represent a plot of land such as is mentioned in section 3(7) as a separate cadastral unit but may instead include it in the cadastral unit representing the plot or plots of land of which it is a pertinent.\n(4) The Keeper must assign a cadastral unit number to each cadastral unit.\n(5) The cadastral unit number is to be the title number of the plot of land which that unit represents.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 12 in force at 8.12.2014 by S.S.I. 2014/127, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2012/5/section/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:14:50.857744+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."
}