{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/succession-scotland-act-1964/section-29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/succession-scotland-act-1964/section-29.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1964/41",
  "legislation_title": "Succession (Scotland) Act 1964",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/succession-scotland-act-1964",
  "path": "section/29",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Right of tenant to bequeath interest under lease.",
  "text": "(1) A bequest by a tenant of his interest under a tenancy or lease to any one of the persons who, if the tenant had died intestate, would be, or would in any circumstances have been, entitled to succeed to his intestate estate by virtue of this Act shall not be treated as invalid by reason only that there is among the conditions of the tenancy or lease an implied condition prohibiting assignation.\n(2) This section shall not prejudice the operation of section 16 of the Crofters Holdings (Scotland) Act 1886 or sections 11 or 12A to 12C of the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991or section 21 of the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 11) (which relate to bequests in the case of agricultural leases) or of section 10 of the Crofters (Scotland) Act 1955 (which makes similar provisions in relation to crofts.)",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 29(2) substituted (25.9.1991) by Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991 (c. 55, SIF 2:3), ss. 88(1), 89(2), Sch. 11 para.25 (with s. 45(3), Sch. 12 para. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 29(2) substituted (23.12.2016) by Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 18), s. 130(1), sch. 2 para. 14(3) (with s. 128); S.S.I. 2016/365, reg. 2, sch. (with regs. 5-8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 29(2) inserted (27.11.2003) by Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 11), ss. 94, 95(3)(4), Sch. para. 2(2) (with s. 95(2)); S.S.I. 2003/548, art. 2(i) (with art. 3, Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words added by Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions)(Scotland) Act 1968 (c. 70), s. 8, Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 27"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1886 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1955 c. 21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "asp/2025/15",
      "affecting_title": "Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "asp/2025/15",
      "affecting_title": "Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1964/41/section/29",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:59:34.825030+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."
}