# Requisitioned Land and War Works Act 1948, Section 18: Application to Scotland.

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) This Act shall apply to Scotland subject to the modifications set out in this section.
(2) For any reference to the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries there shall be substituted a reference to the Secretary of State for Scotland.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(5) 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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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/11-12/17/section/18 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/requisitioned-land-and-war-works-act-1948/section-18
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