{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-leases-scotland-act-1857/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-leases-scotland-act-1857/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/20-21/26",
  "legislation_title": "Registration of Leases (Scotland) Act 1857",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-leases-scotland-act-1857",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Registered and recorded leases effectual against singular successors in the lands let.",
  "text": "Leases registerable under this Act, and valid and binding as in a question with the granters thereof, which shall have been duly registered or recorded, as herein provided, . . . shall, by virtue of such registration, be effectual against any singular successor in the lands and heritages thereby let, whose title is completed after the date of such registration: Provided always, that, except for the purposes of , and subject to section 20C of, this Act, it shall not be necessary to record any such lease as aforesaid, but that all such leases which would, under the existing law prior to the passing of this Act, have been valid and effectual against any such singular successor as aforesaid, shall, though not recorded, be valid and effectual against such singular successor, as well as against the granters of the said leases.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 2 inserted (S.) (8.12.2014) by Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5), ss. 122, 123, Sch. 2 para. 4(a) (with s. 121, Sch. 4 paras. 13, 16); S.S.I. 2014/127, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed retrospectively by Land Tenure Reform (Scotland) Act 1974 (c. 38), Sch. 6 para. 2, Sch. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 2 substituted (S.) (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), Sch. 12 para. 6(2) (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 2 inserted (S.) (8.12.2014) by Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5), ss. 122, 123, Sch. 2 para. 4(b) (with s. 121, Sch. 4 paras. 13, 16); S.S.I. 2014/127, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 2 title substituted (S.) (8.12.2014) by Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5), ss. 122, 123, Sch. 2 para. 5 (with s. 121, Sch. 4 paras. 13, 16); S.S.I. 2014/127, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/20-21/26/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:16:02.217485+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."
}