# Land Tenure Reform (Scotland) Act 1974, Introduction: Introductory text


An Act to provide, as respects Scotland, for the prohibition of new feuduties and other periodical payments from land; for the right to redeem feuduties and other such perpetual payments on a term day; for the redemption by law of feuduties and other such payments on transfer of land; for limitations on the residential use of property subject to long lease and other rights of occupancy; for the variation of heritable securities in the event of residential use of the security subjects; for restrictions on certain rights of reversion, redemption and pre-emption; for limitation of the right to raise an action of irritancy for non-payment of feuduty; for abolition of the right to create leasehold casualties; for the recognition of interposed leases; for amendment of the law relating to registration of leases; for abolition of the registration and recording of documents in the Office of Chancery; and for related matters.
[31st July 1974]

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/38/introduction (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/land-tenure-reform-scotland-act-1974/introduction
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