{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-tenure-reform-scotland-act-1974/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-tenure-reform-scotland-act-1974/section-23.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1974/38",
  "legislation_title": "Land Tenure Reform (Scotland) Act 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-tenure-reform-scotland-act-1974",
  "path": "section/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Interpretation and repeals.",
  "text": "(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“deed” has the meaning assigned to it in section 3 of the Titles to Land Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1868, section 3 of the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1874 and section 2 of the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1924;\n“heritable security” (except in relation to sections 4(5), 5(10) and 10(2)) does not include any security for the purpose of securing the payment of a ... periodical sum payable in respect of land, and “heritable creditors” shall be construed accordingly;\n“land” has the meaning assigned to it in section 2 of the said Act of 1924.\n(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Act to any other enactment is a reference thereto as amended, and includes a reference thereto as extended or applied, by or under any other enactment, including this Act.\n(3) The enactments specified in Schedule 7 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in relation thereto in that Schedule.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 23(1) repealed (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), Sch. 13 Pt. 1 (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1868 c. 101."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1874 c. 94."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1924 c. 27."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 11(6), 13, 14, 19, 23(3) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/38/section/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:43:45.805742+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."
}