{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/requisitioned-land-and-war-works-act-1948/section-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/requisitioned-land-and-war-works-act-1948/section-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/11-12/17",
  "legislation_title": "Requisitioned Land and War Works Act 1948",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/requisitioned-land-and-war-works-act-1948",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Application to Scotland.",
  "text": "(1) This Act shall apply to Scotland subject to the modifications set out in this section.\n(2) For any reference to the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries there shall be substituted a reference to the Secretary of State for Scotland.\n(3) (a) For references to the Town 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 Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act, 1947, and to subsection (3) of section fifty-two and subsection (3) of section seventy-two of that Act.\n(b) For references to the Railways 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.\n(c) For any reference to Part VI of the Third Schedule to the Water Act, 1945, there shall be substituted a reference to sections 95 and 96 of, and Part I of the Schedule 3 to, the Water (Scotland) Act, 1980.\n(d) For references to the Town 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 Town 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.\n(4) The expression “easement” includes servitude; the expression “freehold interest in land” shall be construed as a reference to ... 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.\n(5) For section fourteen the following section shall be substituted:—\n“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.\n(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.”\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Water (Scotland) Act 1980 (c. 45, SIF 130), s. 112(1), Sch. 10 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(4) repealed (S.) (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": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 18(6) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973 (c. 39), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. IX"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1947 c. 51."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1947 c. 53."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1845 c. 33."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "1945 c. 42."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "1944 c. 47."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M6",
      "text": "1945 c. 33."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/11-12/17/section/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:23:30.475187+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."
}