{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-scotland-act-1979/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-scotland-act-1979/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/33",
  "legislation_title": "Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-scotland-act-1979",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Simplification of deeds relating to registered interests.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) It shall not be necessary, in connection with any deed relating to a plot of land or lease registered in the Land Register of Scotland , to include an assignation of any obligation or right of relief or to narrate the series of writs by which the grantor of the deed became entitled to enforce that obligation or exercise that right if the obligation or right has been entered in the title sheet of the plot or lease and, accordingly, in such a case—\n(a) section 50 of and Schedule M to the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1874 (form and effect of assigning right of relief or other right affecting land) shall not apply to such a deed; and\n(b) such a deed shall for all purposes import a valid and complete assignation of that obligation or right.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 15(1)-(3) repealed (8.12.2014) by Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5), ss. 122, 123, sch. 5 para. 19(3)(a) (with s. 121, sch. 4 paras. 13, 16); S.S.I. 2014/127, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 15(4) substituted (8.12.2014) by Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5), ss. 122, 123, sch. 5 para. 19(3)(b)(i) (with s. 121, sch. 4 paras. 13, 16); S.S.I. 2014/127, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 15(4) substituted (8.12.2014) by Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5), ss. 122, 123, sch. 5 para. 19(3)(b)(ii) (with s. 121, sch. 4 paras. 13, 16); S.S.I. 2014/127, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1874 c. 94."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/33/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:17:18.521541+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."
}