# Removal Terms (Scotland) Act 1886, Section 4: Terms of entry and removal from houses.


Where under any lease entered into after the passing of this Act, the term for a tenant’s entry to, or removal from, a house shall be one or other of the terms of Whit Sunday or Martinmas, the tenant shall, in the absence of express stipulation to the contrary, enter to, or remove from, the said house (any custom or usage to the contrary notwithstanding) at noon on the twenty-eighth day of May, if the term be Whit Sunday, or at noon on the twenty-eighth day of November, if the term be Martinmas, or on the following day at the same hour, where the said terms fall on a Sunday.
Notwithstanding anything in this Act contained, in all cases in which warning is required forty days before a Whit Sunday or Martinmas term of removal, such warning shall be given forty days before the fifteenth day of May and the eleventh day of November respectively.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/49-50/50/section/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/removal-terms-scotland-act-1886/section-4
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