Section 18 Application to Scotland.

This Act shall apply to Scotland subject to the modifications set out in this section.

For any reference to the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries there shall be substituted a reference to the Secretary of State for Scotland.

(a) For references to the M1Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, and to subsection (3) of section fifty-five and subsection (3) of section seventy-five of that Act there shall be respectively substituted references to the M2Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act, 1947, and to subsection (3) of section fifty-two and subsection (3) of section seventy-two of that Act.

(b) For references to the M3Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and to the following provisions of that Act, that is to say, sections seventy-eight to eighty-five, there shall be respectively substituted references to the Railways Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1845, and to sections seventy-one to seventy-eight of that Act.

(c) For any reference to Part VI of the Third Schedule to the M4Water Act, 1945, there shall be substituted a reference to F1sections 95 and 96 of, and Part I of the Schedule 3 to, the Water (Scotland) Act, 1980.

(d) For references to the M5Town and Country Planning Act, 1944, and to the following provisions of that Act, that is to say, sections twenty-five, twenty-six and twenty-seven there shall be respectively substituted references to the M6Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act, 1945, and to the following provisions of that Act, that is to say, sections twenty-four, twenty-five and twenty-six.

The expression “easement” includes servitude; the expression “freehold interest in land” shall be construed as a reference to F2... the ownership of the land; and the expression “reversionary interest” shall be construed as a reference to the interest of the landlord in land subject to a lease.

For section fourteen the following section shall be substituted:—

“14

(1)

Section twelve of this Act shall not, after the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, apply to a government oil pipe-line running through, or any works accessory thereto on, any land unless the Minister has executed and recorded in the appropriate register of sasines a deed of servitude granting to himself the rights conferred by subsection (1) of the said section twelve.

(2)

Where the Minister executes a deed under the foregoing subsection, he shall give notice of the effect thereof in such manner as is in his opinion best adapted for informing the persons affected.”

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