Equal Rights Trust Statement on Discriminatory Limitations of Freedom of Assembly and Association
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There shall be a public register of interests in land in Scotland to be known as the " Land Register of Scotland " (in this Act referred to as " the register ").
The register shall be under the management and control of the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland (in this Act referred to as " the Keeper ") and shall have a seal.
In this Act " registered " means registered in the register in accordance with this Act and " registrable ", " registration " and other cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly.
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Subject to subsection (2) below, an unregistered interest in land other than an overriding interest shall be registrable—
in any of the following circumstances occurring after the commencement of this Act—
on a grant of the interest in land in feu, long lease or security by way of contract of ground annual, but only to the extent that the interest has become that of the feuar, lessee or debtor in the ground annual;
on a transfer of the interest for valuable consideration ;
on a transfer of the interest in consideration of marriage;
on a transfer of the interest whereby it is absorbed into a registered interest in land;
on any transfer of the interest where it is held under a long lease, udal tenure or a kindly tenancy;
in any other circumstances in which an application is made for registration of the interest by the person or persons having that interest and the Keeper considers it expedient that the interest should be registered.
Subsection (1) above does not apply to an unregistered interest which is a heritable security, liferent or incorporeal heritable right; and subsection (l)(a)(ii) above does not apply where the interest on transference is absorbed into another unregistered interest.
The creation over a registered interest in land of any of the following interests in land— shall be registrable; and on registration of its creation such an interest shall become a registered interest in land.
a heritable security;
a liferent;
an incorporeal heritable right,
There shall also be registrable—
any transfer of a registered interest in land including any transfer whereby it is absorbed into another registered interest in land ;
any absorption by a registered interest in land of another registered interest in land ;
any other transaction or event which (whether by itself or in conjunction with registration) is capable under any enactment or rule of law of affecting the title to a registered interest in land but which is not a transaction or event creating or affecting an overriding interest.
The Secretary of State may, by order made by statutory instrument, provide that interests in land of a kind or kinds specified in the order, being interests in land which are unregistered at the date of the making of the order other than overriding interests, shall be registered; and the provisions of this Act shall apply for the purposes of such registration with such modifications, which may include provision as to the expenses of such registration, as may be specified in the order.
In this section, " enactment" includes sections 17, 18 and 19 of this Act.
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Registration shall have the effect of— insofar as the right or obligation is capable, under any enactment or rule of law, of being vested as a real right, of being made real or, as the case may be, of being affected as a real right. In this subsection, " enactment " includes sections 17, 18 and 19 of this Act.
vesting in the person registered as entitled to the registered interest in land a real right in and to the interest and in and to any right, pertinent or servitude, express or implied, forming part of the interest, subject only to the effect of any matter entered in the title sheet of that interest under section 6 of this Act so far as adverse to the interest or that person's entitlement to it and to any overriding interest whether noted under that section or not;
making any registered right or obligation relating to the registered interest in land a real right or obligation ;
affecting any registered real right or obligation relating to the registered interest in land,
Registration shall supersede the recording of a deed in the Register of Sasines but, subject to subsection (3) below, shall be without prejudice to any other means of creating or affecting real rights or obligations under any enactment or rule of law.
A— shall obtain a real right in and to his interest as such only by registration ; and registration shall be the only means of making rights or obligations relating to the registered interest in land of such a person real rights or obligations or of affecting such real rights or obligations.
lessee under a long lease;
proprietor under udal tenure ;
kindly tenant,
The date— shall be the date of registration.
at which a real right or obligation is created or as from which it is affected under this section;
of entry of a feuar of a registrable interest in land with his superior,
Where an interest in land has been registered, any obligation to assign title deeds and searches relating to that interest in land or to deliver them or make them forthcoming or any related obligation shall be of no effect in relation to that interest or to any other registered interest in land. This subsection does not apply—
to a land or charge certificate issued under section 5 of this Act;
where the Keeper has, under section 12(2) of this Act, excluded indemnity under Part II of this Act.
It shall not be necessary for an uninfeft proprietor of an interest in land which has been registered to expede a notice of title in order to complete his title to that interest if evidence of sufficient midcouples or links between the uninfeft proprietor and the person last infeft are produced to the Keeper on any registration in respect of that interest and, accordingly, section 4 of the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1924 (completion of title by person uninfeft) shall be of no effect in relation to such an interest in land. This subsection does not apply to the completion of title under section 74 or 76 of the Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1845 (procedure on compulsory purchase of lands).
Nothing in this section affects any question as to the validity or effect of an overriding interest.
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Subject to subsection (2) below, an application for registration shall be accepted by the Keeper if it is accompanied by such documents and other evidence as he may require.
An application for registration shall not be accepted by the Keeper if—
it relates to land which is not sufficiently described to enable him to identify it by reference to the Ordnance Map;
it relates to land which is a souvenir plot, that is a piece of land which, being of inconsiderable size or no practical utility, is unlikely to be wanted in isolation except for the sake of mere ownership or for sentimental reasons or commemorative purposes ; or
it is frivolous or vexatious ;
a deed which— does not bear a reference to the number of the title sheet of that interest.
accompanies the application ;
relates to a registered interest in land; and
is executed after that interest has been registered,
On receipt of an application for registration, the Keeper shall forthwith note the date of such receipt, and that date shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to be the date of registration either—
where the application, after examination by the Keeper, is accepted by him, or
where the application is not accepted by him on the grounds that it does not comply with subsection (1) or (2)(a) or (d) above but, without being rejected by the Keeper or withdrawn by the applicant, is subsequently accepted by the Keeper on his being satisfied that it does so comply, or has been made so to comply.
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The Keeper shall complete registration— and in each case by making such consequential amendments in the register as are necessary.
in respect of an interest in land which is not a heritable security, liferent or incorporeal heritable right—
if the interest has not previously been registered, by making up a title sheet for it in the register in accordance with section 6 of this Act, or
if the interest has previously been registered, by making such amendment as is necessary to the title sheet of the interest;
in respect of an interest in land which is a heritable security, liferent or incorporeal heritable right or in respect of the matters registrable under section 2(4) of this Act by making such amendment as is necessary to the title sheet of the interest in land to which the heritable security, liferent, incorporeal heritable right or matter, as the case may be, relates,
Where the Keeper has completed registration under subsection (1)(a) above, he shall issue to the applicant a copy of the title sheet, authenticated by the seal of the register; and such copy shall be known as a land certificate.
Where the Keeper has completed registration in respect of a heritable security, he shall issue to the applicant a certificate authenticated by the seal of the register ; and such certificate shall be known as a charge certificate.
A land certificate shall be accepted for all purposes as sufficient evidence of the contents of the title sheet of which the land certificate is a copy; and a charge certificate shall be accepted for all purposes as sufficient evidence of the facts stated in it
Every land certificate and charge certificate shall contain a statement as to indemnity by the Keeper under Part II of this Act
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Subject to subsection (3) below, the Keeper shall make up and maintain a title sheet of an interest in land in the register by entering therein—
a description of the land which shall consist of or include a description of it based on the Ordnance Map, and, where the interest is that of the proprietor of the dominium utile or the lessee under a long lease and the land appears to the Keeper to extend to 2 hectares or more, its area as calculated by the Keeper ;
the name and designation of the person entitled to the interest in the land and the nature of that interest;
any subsisting entry in the Register of Inhibitions and Adjudications adverse to the interest;
any heritable security over the interest;
any enforceable real right pertaining to the interest or subsisting real burden or condition affecting the interest;
any exclusion of indemnity under section 12(2) of this Act in respect of the interest;
such other information as the Keeper thinks fit to enter in the register.
The Keeper shall enter a real right or real burden or condition in the title sheet by entering its terms or a summary of its terms therein; and such a summary shall, unless it contains a reference to a further entry in the title sheet wherein the terms of the real right, burden or condition are set out in full be presumed to be a correct statement of the terms of the right, burden or condition.
The Keeper's duty under subsection (1) above shall not extend to entering in the title sheet any over-feuduty or overrent exigible in respect of the interest in land, but he may so enter any such over-feuduty or over-rent.
Any overriding interest which appears to the Keeper to affect an interest in land— In this subsection " overriding interest" does not include the interest of a lessee under a lease which is not a long lease.
shall be noted by him in the title sheet of that interest if it has been disclosed in any document accompanying an application for registration in respect of that interest;
may be so noted if—
application is made to him to do so;
the overriding interest is disclosed in any application for registration; or
the overriding interest otherwise comes to his notice.
The Keeper shall issue, to any person applying, a copy, authenticated as the Keeper thinks fit, of any title sheet, part thereof, or of any document referred to in a title sheet; and such copy, which shall be known as an office copy, shall be accepted for all purposes as sufficient evidence of the contents of the original.
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Without prejudice to any express provision as to ranking in any deed or any other provision as to ranking in, or having effect by virtue of, any enactment or rule of law, the following provisions of this section shall have effect to determine the ranking of titles to interests in land.
Titles to registered interests in land shall rank according to the date of registration of those interests.
A title to a registered interest and a title governed by a deed recorded in the Register of Sasines shall rank according to the respective dates of registration and recording.
Where the date of registration or recording of the titles to two or more interests in land is the same, the titles to those interests shall rank equally.
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Subject to subsection (3) below, the only means of creating or affecting a real right or a real obligation relating to anything to which subsection (2) below applies shall be by recording a deed in the Register of Sasines.
This subsection applies to—
an interest in land which is to be transferred or otherwise affected by— has not, before such commencement, been re-presented, corrected as necessary, for the purposes of recording of new under section 143 of the Titles to Land Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1868 ; In this paragraph, " instrument" has the same meaning as in section 3 of the said Act of 1868.
an instrument which, having been recorded before the commencement of this Act in the Register of Sasines with an error or defect; or
a deed which, having been recorded before the commencement of this Act in the Register of Sasines with an error or defect in the recording,
a registered interest in land which has been absorbed, otherwise than by operation of prescription, into another interest in land the title to which is governed by a deed recorded in the Register of Sasines ;
anything which is not registrable under subsections (1) to (4) of section 2 of this Act and in respect of which, immediately before the commencement of this Act, a real right or obligation could be created or affected by recording a deed in the Register of Sasines.
Nothing in subsection (1) above shall prejudice any other means, other than by registration, of creating or affecting real rights or obligations under any enactment or rule of law.
Except as provided in this section, the Keeper shall reject any deed submitted for recording in the Register of Sasines.
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Subject to subsection (3) below, the Keeper may, whether on being so requested or not, and shall, on being so ordered by the court or the Lands Tribunal for Scotland, rectify any inaccuracy in the register by inserting, amending or cancelling anything therein.
Subject to subsection (3)(b) below, the powers of the court and of the Lands Tribunal for Scotland to deal with questions of heritable right or title shall include power to make orders for the purposes of subsection (1) above.
If rectification under subsection (1) above would prejudice a proprietor in possession—
the Keeper may exercise his power to rectify only where—
the purpose of the rectification is to note an overriding interest or to correct any information in the register relating to an overriding interest;
all persons whose interests in land are likely to be affected by the rectification have been informed by the Keeper of his intention to rectify and have consented in writing;
the inaccuracy has been caused wholly or substantially by the fraud or carelessness of the proprietor in possession; or
the rectification relates to a matter in respect of which indemnity has been excluded under section 12(2) of this Act;
the court or the Lands Tribunal for Scotland may order the Keeper to rectify only where sub-paragraph (i), (iii) or (iv) of paragraph (a) above applies.
In this section—
" the court" means any court having jurisdiction in questions of heritable right or title ;
" overriding interest" does not include the interest of a lessee under a lease which is not a long lease.
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then, as from the expiration of the said period, the validity of the title so far as relating to the said interest in the particular land shall be exempt from challenge.
at the end of subsection (2) there were added " or which is registrable in the Land Register of Scotland. ".
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If an application for registration relates to land no part of which is in an operational area, the Keeper may nevertheless accept that application as if it related to land wholly within an operational area, and if the Keeper has so accepted such an application, the provisions of this Act relating to registration then in force shall apply in relation to that application.
An application for registration which relates to land which is partly in an operational area shall be treated as if it related to land wholly in that area, and the provisions of this Act relating to registration in force shall apply in relation to that application.
In this section an " operational area " means an area in respect of which the provisions of this Act relating to registration have come into operation.
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Subject to the provisions of this section, a person who suffers loss as a result of— shall be entitled to be indemnified by the Keeper in respect of that loss.
a rectification of the register made under section 9 of this Act;
the refusal or omission of the Keeper to make such a rectification;
the loss or destruction of any document while lodged with the Keeper;
an error or omission in any land or charge certificate or in any information given by the Keeper in writing or in such other manner as may be prescribed by rules made under section 27 of this Act,
Subject to section 14 of this Act, the Keeper may on registration in respect of an interest in land exclude, in whole or in part, any right to indemnity under this section in respect of anything appearing in, or omitted from, the title sheet of that interest.
There shall be no entitlement to indemnity under this section in respect of loss where—
the loss arises as a result of a title prevailing over that of the claimant in a case where—
the prevailing title is one in respect of which the right to indemnity has been partially excluded under subsection (2) above, and
such exclusion has been cancelled but only on the prevailing title having been fortified by prescription ;
the loss arises in respect of a title which has been reduced as a gratuitous alienation or fraudulent preference, or has been reduced or varied by an order under section 6(2) of the Divorce (Scotland) Act 1976 (orders relating to settlements and other dealings);
the loss arises in consequence of the making of a further order under section 5(2) of the Presumption of Death (Scotland) Act 1977 (effect on property rights of recall or variation of decree of declarator of presumed death);
the loss arises as a result of any inaccuracy in the delineation of any boundaries shown in a title sheet, being an inaccuracy which could not have been rectified by reference to the Ordnance Map, unless the Keeper has expressly assumed responsibility for the accuracy of that delineation;
the loss arises, in the case of land extending to 2 hectares or more the area of which falls to be entered in the title sheet of an interest in that land under section 6(1)(a) of this Act, as a result of the Keeper's failure to enter such area in the title sheet or, where he has so entered such area, as a result of any inaccuracy in the specification of that area in the title sheet;
the loss arises in respect of an interest in mines and minerals and the title sheet of any interest in land which is or includes the surface land does not expressly disclose that the interest in mines and minerals is included in that interest in land;
the loss arises from inability to enforce a real burden or condition entered in the register, unless the Keeper expressly assumes responsibility for the enforceability of that burden or condition;
the loss arises in respect of an error or omission in the noting of an overriding interest;
the loss is suffered by—
a beneficiary under a trust in respect of any transaction entered into by its trustees or in respect of any title granted by them the validity of which is unchallengeable by virtue of section 2 of the Trusts (Scotland) Act 1961 (validity of certain transactions by trustees), or as the case may be, section 17 of the Succession (Scotland) Act 1964 (protection of persons acquiring title), or
a person in respect of any interest transferred to him by trustees in purported implement of trust purposes;
the loss arises as a result of an error or omission in an office copy as to the effect of any subsisting adverse entry in the Register of Inhibitions and Adjudications affecting any person in respect of any registered interest in land, and that person's entitlement to that interest is neither disclosed in the register nor otherwise known to the Keeper ;
the claimant is the proprietor of the dominant tenement in a servitude, except insofar as the claim may relate to the validity of the constitution of that servitude;
the claimant is a superior, a creditor in a ground annual or a landlord under a long lease and the claim relates to any information— (except insofar as the claim may relate to the constitution or amount of the feuduty, ground annual or rent and adequate information has been made available to the Keeper to enable him to make an entry in the register in respect of such constitution or amount or to the description of the land in respect of which the feuduty, ground annual or rent is payable);
contained in the feu writ, the contract of ground annual or the lease, as the case may be, and
omitted from the title sheet of the interest of the superior, creditor or landlord,
the claimant has by his fraudulent or careless act or omission caused the loss;
the claim relates to the amount due under a heritable security.
A refusal or omission by the Keeper to enter in a title sheet— shall not by itself prevent a claim to indemnity under this section.
any over-feuduty or over-rent exigible in respect of a registrable interest;
any right alleged to be a real right on the ground that by virtue of section 6 of this Act he has no duty to do so since it is unenforceable,
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Subject to any order by the Lands Tribunal for Scotland or the court for the payment of expenses in connection with any claim disposed of by the Lands Tribunal under section 25 of this Act or the court, the Keeper shall reimburse any expenditure reasonably and properly incurred by a person in pursuing a prima facie well-founded claim under section 12 of this Act, whether successful or not.
On settlement of any claim to indemnity under the said section 12, the Keeper shall be subrogated to all rights which would have been available to the claimant to recover the loss indemnified.
The Keeper may require a claimant, as a condition of payment of his claim, to grant, at the Keeper's expense, a formal assignation to the Keeper of the rights mentioned in subsection (2) above.
If a claimant to indemnity has by his fraudulent or careless act or omission contributed to the loss in respect of which he claims indemnity, the amount of the indemnity to which he would have been entitled had he not so contributed to his loss shall be reduced proportionately to the extent to which he has so contributed.
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If— the Keeper shall notify the Crown Estate Commissioners that he has been so requested.
it appears to the Keeper that—
an interest in land which is registered or in respect of which an application for registration has been made consists, in whole or in part, of foreshore or a right in foreshore, or might so consist, and
discounting any other deficiencies in his title in respect of that foreshore or right in foreshore, the person registered or, as the case may be, applying to be registered as entitled to the interest will not have an unchallengeable title in respect of the foreshore or the right in foreshore until prescription against the Crown has fortified his title in that respect, and
the Keeper wholly excludes or proposes wholly to exclude rights to indemnity in respect of that person's entitlement to that foreshore or that right in foreshore, and is requested by that person not to do so,
whichever is the lesser, together with—
within one month of receipt of the notification referred to in subsection (1) above, given to the Keeper written notice of their interest, and
subject to subsection (4) below, such further amount as may be required to discharge any heritable security over the tenancy land or, where the heritable security is granted over land including the tenancy land, such further amount (being such proportion of the sum secured over the land which includes the tenancy land as may reasonably be regarded as attributable to the tenancy land) as is required to restrict the heritable security so as to disburden the tenancy land . . .
within three months of that receipt informed the Keeper in writing that they are taking steps to challenge that title,
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the Crown or any Government or other public department, or any public or local authority, under any enactment or rule of law, other than an enactment or rule of law authorising or requiring the recording of a deed in the Register of Sasines or registration in order to complete the right or interest;
during the prescriptive period, or
until such time as it appears to the Keeper that the Commissioners are no longer taking steps to challenge that title or that their challenge has been unsuccessful, whichever is the shorter, continue wholly to exclude or, as the case may be, wholly exclude right to indemnity in respect of that person's entitlement to that foreshore or that right in foreshore.
This section, or anything done under it, shall be without prejudice to any other right or remedy available to any person in respect of foreshore or any right in foreshore.
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sections 10 and 146 of and Schedule D to the Titles to Land Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1868, in section 32 of the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1874, the words from the beginning to " shall be sufficient" and in section 9 of the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1924, the proviso to subsection (1), subsections (3) and (4) and Schedule E to the said Act of 1924 (importation of burdens etc. by reference) shall not apply to such a deed; and
such a deed shall import for all purposes a full insertion of the real burden, condition, provision or other matter.
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It shall not be necessary, in connection with any deed relating to a plot of land or lease registered in the Land Register of Scotland , to include an assignation of any obligation or right of relief or to narrate the series of writs by which the grantor of the deed became entitled to enforce that obligation or exercise that right if the obligation or right has been entered in the title sheet of the plot or lease and, accordingly, in such a case—
section 50 of and Schedule M to the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1874 (form and effect of assigning right of relief or other right affecting land) shall not apply to such a deed; and
such a deed shall for all purposes import a valid and complete assignation of that obligation or right.
It shall not be necessary to insert in any deed executed after the commencement of this Act which conveys an interest in land a clause of assignation of writs and any such deed shall, unless specially qualified, import an assignation to the grantee of the title deeds and searches and all deeds not duly recorded, and shall—
impose on the grantor or any successor an obligation—
to deliver to the grantee all title deeds and searches relating exclusively to the interest conveyed;
to make forthcoming to the grantee and his successors at his or their expense on all necessary occasions any title deeds and searches which remain in the possession of the grantor or any successor and which relate partly to the interest conveyed; and
import an assignation to the grantee by the grantor of his right to require any person having custody thereof to exhibit or deliver any title deeds and searches remaining undelivered; and
impose on the grantee or any successor an obligation to make forthcoming on all necessary occasions to any party having an interest therein any deeds and searches which have been delivered to the grantee but which relate partly to interests other than the interest conveyed to the grantee.
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It shall not be necessary to insert in any deed conveying an interest in land executed after the commencement of this Act a clause of assignation of rents or a clause of obligation of relief, and any such deed so executed shall, unless specially qualified, import—
an assignation of the rents payable—
in the case of backhand rents, at the legal terms following the date of entry, and
in the case of forehand rents, at the conventional terms following that date;
an obligation on the grantor to relieve the grantee of all . . . annuities and public, parochial and local burdens exigible in respect of the interest prior to the date of entry . . . .
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A land obligation specified in a deed executed after the commencement of this Act under section 32 of the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1874 (deeds of conditions etc.) shall— become a real obligation affecting the land to which it relates, unless it is expressly stated in such deed that the provisions of this section are not to apply to that obligation.
on the recording of such deed in the Register of Sasines ;
on the obligation being registered,
In this section "land obligation" has the meaning assigned to it by section 1(2) of the Conveyancing and Feudal Reform (Scotland) Act 1970.
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The terms of any— shall be binding on the singular successors of the person entitled to enforce the land obligation, and of the person on whom the land obligation was binding.
deed recorded in the Register of Sasines, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, whereby a land obligation is varied or discharged;
registered variation or discharge of a land obligation,
In this section " land obligation " has the meaning assigned to it by section 1(2) of the Conveyancing and Feudal Reform (Scotland) Act 1970.
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This section shall apply where the titles to adjoining lands disclose a discrepancy as to the common boundary and the proprietors of those lands have agreed to, and have executed a plan of, that boundary.
Where one or both of the proprietors holds his interest or their interest in the land or lands by virtue of a deed or, as the case may be, deeds recorded in the Register of Sasines, the agreement and plan may be recorded in the Register of Sasines and on being so recorded shall be binding on the singular successors of that proprietor or, as the case may be, those proprietors and on all other persons having an interest in the land or, as the case may be, the lands.
Where one or both of the interests in the lands is or are registered interests, the plan with a docquet thereon executed by both proprietors referring to the agreement shall be registrable as affecting that interest or those interests, and on its being so registered its effect shall be binding on the singular successors of the proprietor of that interest or, as the case may be, the proprietors of those interests and on all other persons having an interest in the land or, as the case may be, the lands.
A tenant-at-will shall be entitled, in accordance with this section, to acquire his landlord’s interest as such in the land which is subject to the tenancy-at-will (hereinafter referred to as the “tenancy land”).
Subject to section 21(2) of this Act, a tenant-at-will who wishes to acquire his landlord’s interest under this section shall serve notice on him in, or as nearly as may be in, the form set out in Schedule 1 to this Act.
any person, being a right which has been made real, otherwise than by the recording of a deed in the Register of Sasines or by registration; or
the value of the tenancy land, not including any buildings thereon, but assuming that planning permission for residential purposes has been granted in respect of it; or
one twenty-fifth of the value of the tenancy land, including any buildings thereon,
whichever is the lesser, together with—
In respect of any acquisition under this section, the amount mentioned in paragraph (i) of subsection (3) above shall not exceed ninety per cent. of the amount fixed by virtue of paragraph (a) or (b) of that subsection.
The tenant-at-will shall reimburse the expenses reasonably and properly incurred by the landlord in conveying his interest in the tenancy land to the tenant-at-will, including the expenses of any discharge or restriction under subsection (3) above.
The landlord shall, on there being tendered to him the compensation and expenses specified in this section, convey his interest in the tenancy land to his tenant-at-will on such terms and conditions (additional to those relating to compensation and expenses under subsections (3), (4) and (5) above) as may be agreed between them or, failing agreement, as may be appropriate to the circumstances of the case and free of all heritable securities . . . .
A heritable creditor whose security is over the tenancy land or land which includes the tenancy land, on there being tendered to him the amount mentioned in paragraph (i) of subsection (3) above (as read with subsection (4) above) and his reasonable expenses, shall discharge or, as the case may be, restrict the security so as to disburden the tenancy land.
In this section and in sections 21 and 22 of this Act, “tenant-at-will” means a person—
who, not being— is by custom and usage the occupier (actual or constructive) of land on which there is a building or buildings erected or acquired for value by him or any predecessor of his;
a tenant under a lease;
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a tenant or occupier by virtue of any enactment,
who is under an obligation to pay a ground rent to the owner of the land in respect of the said land but not in respect of the building or buildings on it, or would have been under such an obligation if the ground rent had not been redeemed; and
whose right of occupancy of the land is without ish.
In subsections (5) and (6) above, references to the conveying of the landlord’s interest in tenancy land shall be construed in accordance with section 21(10) of this Act.
Any question arising under section 20 of this Act as to— shall be determined, on the application of the tenant-at-will, a person claiming to be the tenant-at-will or the landlord, by the Lands Tribunal for Scotland.
whether a person is a tenant-at-will;
the extent or boundaries of any tenancy land;
the value of any tenancy land or as to what proportion of any sum secured over any land may reasonably be regarded as attributable to any tenancy land included in that land;
whether any expenses are reasonably and properly incurred;
what are appropriate terms and conditions,
The Lands Tribunal for Scotland may, on the application of a tenant-at-will who wishes to acquire his landlord’s interest in the tenancy land under section 20 of this Act, if they are satisfied that such landlord is unknown or cannot be found, make an order— for the purposes of the acquisition by the tenant-at-will of his landlord’s said interest.
dispensing with notice under section 20(2) above;
fixing an amount by way of compensation in accordance with section 20(3) of this Act;
determining appropriate terms and conditions on which the landlord’s interest in the tenancy land should be conveyed,
If the landlord— the tenant-at-will may apply to the sheriff for an order dispensing with the execution by the landlord of the conveyance in favour of the tenant-at-will and directing the sheriff clerk to execute the conveyance instead of the landlord, and on making such an order the sheriff may require the tenant-at-will to consign in court any sums payable by the tenant-at-will under section 20(3) and (5) of this Act or, as the case may be, any sums specified in an order under subsection (2) above.
fails to convey his interest in accordance with section 20(6) of this Act, or
is unknown or cannot be found,
Where, in pursuance of an order made by the sheriff under this section, a conveyance is executed by the sheriff clerk on behalf of the landlord, such conveyance shall have the like force and effect as if it had been executed by such landlord.
The sheriff may, on the application of any party, order the investment, payment or distribution of any sums consigned in court under subsection (3) above, and in so doing the sheriff shall have regard to the respective interests of any parties appearing to have a claim on such sums.
Nothing in section 5 of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1907 shall entitle any party to an application to the sheriff under this section to require it to be remitted to the Court of Session on the grounds that it relates to a question of heritable right or title.
A landlord shall have power to execute a valid conveyance in pursuance of this section notwithstanding that he may be under any such disability as is mentioned in section 7 of the Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1845.
Where a person other than the landlord is owner of the subjects to be conveyed, references in section 20 of this Act and in this section to the landlord shall be construed as references to the landlord and such other person for their respective rights.
Any condition or provision to the effect that a person with an interest in land shall be entitled to a right of pre-emption in the event of a sale of the land, or of any part of the land, by the proprietor for the time being, shall not be capable of being enforced where the sale is by a landlord to his tenant-at-will under section 20 of this Act.
the superior of any feu shall be entitled to a right of pre-emption in the event of a sale thereof or any part thereof by the proprietor of the feu, or
any other person with an interest in land shall be entitled to a right of pre-emption in the event of a sale thereof or of any part thereof by the proprietor for the time being,
In this section and in section 20(5) and (6) of this Act, references to the conveying of the landlord’s interest in the tenancy land shall be construed as references to a disposition by him of that land or, where the landlord is a lessee under a lease, an assignation of the lease but only as regards the tenancy land and, in this section, “conveyance” shall be construed accordingly.
The provisions of this section shall have effect where a heritable security over tenancy land or over land which includes tenancy land falls to be discharged or restricted under section 20(7) of this Act.
The heritable creditor shall be entitled for his interest to apply, and to be a party to an application, under section 21(1) of this Act.
The Lands Tribunal for Scotland, if they are satisfied that the heritable creditor is unknown or cannot be found, may, on the application of the tenant-at-will or his landlord or both, make an order fixing the amount required to discharge or restrict the heritable security so as to disburden the tenancy land.
If the heritable creditor— the tenant-at-will or the landlord or both may apply to the sheriff for an order dispensing with the execution by the heritable creditor of the deed of discharge or restriction in favour of the landlord and directing the sheriff clerk to execute the deed instead of the heritable creditor and on making such an order the sheriff may require the landlord to consign in court any amount or expenses which the landlord requires to pay for the purposes of section 20(3)(i), (4) and (5) of this Act to the heritable creditor or, as the case may be, any amount specified in an order under subsection (3) above.
fails to disburden the tenancy land in accordance with section 20(7) of this Act, or
is unknown or cannot be found,
Where, in pursuance of an order made by the sheriff under this section, a deed of discharge or restriction is executed by the sheriff clerk on behalf of the heritable creditor, such deed shall have the like force and effect as if it had been executed by such heritable creditor.
The sheriff may, on the application of any party, order the investment, payment or distribution of any amount consigned in court under subsection (4) above, and in so doing the sheriff shall have regard to the respective interests of any parties appearing to have a claim on such amount.
Nothing in section 5 of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1907 shall entitle any party to an application to the sheriff under this section to require it to be remitted to the Court of Session on the grounds that it relates to a question of heritable right or title.
A heritable creditor shall have power to execute a valid deed of discharge or restriction in pursuance of this section notwithstanding that he may be under any such disability as is mentioned in section 7 of the Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1845.
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Where a landlord has failed to renew a long lease in implement of an obligation in or under it, the sheriff may, on summary application by the tenant, make an order directing the sheriff clerk to execute a renewal of the lease instead of the landlord.
On making an order under subsection (1) above, the sheriff may require the tenant to consign in court such amount (whether by way of rent or expenses or otherwise) in respect of the lease and its renewal as appears to the sheriff to be lawfully due and payable or appears to him would have been so due and payable had the landlord duly renewed the lease.
A renewal executed under this section shall have the like force and effect as if it were executed by the landlord.
Without prejudice to subsection (7)(a) below, a landlord shall be regarded, for the purposes of subsection (1) above, as having failed to renew a lease in implement of an obligation in or under it if, having been given written notice in accordance with subsection (5) below by the tenant that he requires the landlord, in implement of the obligation, to renew the lease, the landlord has failed to do so when he was obliged to and continues so to fail.
Notice is in accordance with this subsection if it is given not less than 3 months before the lodging of the summary application.
Subsection (4) above is subject to subsection (7)(b) below and to any provision in or under the lease for earlier, or a longer period of, notice requiring renewal of the lease than that mentioned in subsection (5) above.
If the sheriff is satisfied that a landlord is unknown or cannot be found, he may–
in a case where the tenant is thereby prevented from bringing the landlord, in accordance with the lease, under an obligation to renew it, order that the landlord shall be regarded, for the purposes of subsection (1) above, as having failed to renew the lease in implement of an obligation under it; and
in any other case, dispense with notice under subsection (4) above.
The sheriff may, on the application of any party, order the investment, payment or distribution of any sums consigned in court under subsection (2) above, and in so doing the sheriff shall have regard to the respective interests of any parties appearing to have a claim on such sums.
The sheriff’s power under subsection (8) above extends to ordering that any award of expenses of the application under this section be paid out of any sums consigned in court under subsection (2) above.
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Subject to subsections (3) and (4) below, an appeal shall lie, on any question of fact or law arising from anything done or omitted to be done by the Keeper under this Act, to the Lands Tribunal for Scotland.
Subject to subsections (3) and (4) below subsection (1) above is without prejudice to any right of recourse under any enactment other than this Act or under any rule of law.
Nothing in subsection (1) above shall enable the taking of an appeal if it is, under the law relating to res judicata, excluded as a result of the exercise of any right of recourse by virtue of subsection (2) above; and nothing in subsection (2) above shall enable the exercise of any right of recourse if it is so excluded as a result of the taking of an appeal under subsection (1) above.
No appeal shall he under this section, nor shall there be any right of recourse by virtue of this section in respect of a decision of the Keeper under section 2(1)(b) or 11(1) of this Act.
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The Secretary of State may, after consultation with the Lord President of the Court of Session, make rules—
regulating the making up and keeping of the register ;
prescribing the form of any search, report or other document to be issued or used under or in connection with this Act and regulating the issue of any such document;
regulating the procedure on application for any registration;
prescribing the form of deeds relating to registered interests in land;
concerning such other matters as seem to the Secretary of State to be necessary or proper in order to give full effect to the purposes of this Act.
The power to make rules under this section shall be exerciseable by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
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In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires—
" the register " and " registered " have the meanings assigned to them respectively by subsections (1) and (3) of section 1 of this Act;
the holder of a floating charge whether or not the charge has attached to the interest;
" Register of Sasines " has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1924;
There shall be payable by the tenant-at-will to his landlord by way of compensation in respect of an acquisition of tenancy land such amount as may be agreed between them or, failing agreement, an amount equal to—
a member of the public in respect of any public right of way or in respect of any right held inalienably by the Crown in trust for the public;
which is subject to any provision whereby any person holding the interest of the grantor is under a future obligation, if so requested by the grantee, to renew the lease so that the total duration could (in terms of the lease, as renewed, and without any subsequent agreement, express or implied, between the persons holding the interests of the grantor and the grantee) extend for more than 20 years;
" incorporeal heritable right " does not include a right to salmon fishings;
" transfer " includes transfer by operation of law.
This Act shall be deemed, for the purposes of the Scotland Act 1978, to have been passed before that Act.
The enactments specified in Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments set out in that Schedule.
Subject to subsection (3) below, any reference, however expressed, in any enactment passed before, or during the same Session as, this Act or in any instrument made before the passing of this Act under any enactment to the Register of Sasines or to the recording of a deed therein shall be construed as a reference to the register or, as the case may be, to registration.
Subsection (2) above does not apply—
to the enactments specified in Schedule 3 to this Act;
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The enactments specified in Schedule 4 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.
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This Act may be cited as the Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979 and extends to Scotland only.
Sections 1, 16 to 23 of this Act, this section and so much of the remainder of this Part of this Act as relates to the aforesaid provisions of this Act shall come into operation on the passing of this Act, and the other provisions of this Act shall come into operation on the appointed day, being such day as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint; and different days may be appointed, under this subsection for different areas, or for different provisions of this Act.
Any reference in any provision of this Act to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the date on which that provision comes into operation.
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Section 29(1).
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in subsection (1), after "action", where thirdly occurring, insert " or from an examination of the relevant title sheet in the Land Register of Scotland ".
in subsection (2) after " search " insert " or examination ".
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in subsection (3) at the end insert " or by an examination of the title sheet of the security subjects in the Land Register of Scotland. ";
in subsection (5) after the words " unsold part thereof " where secondly occurring insert " or in accordance with section 15 of the Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979 ".
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In section 9 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1974 (conditions of improvement grants), in subsection (9)—
in paragraph (i), after " tenant-at-will" insert " or was a tenant-at-will who, since applying, has acquired his landlord's interest in the tenancy ";
in paragraph (ii), after " was" insert " , and continues to be, ".
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in sub-paragraph (a), after " tenant-at-will" insert " or was a tenant-at-will who, since applying, has acquired his landlord's interest in the tenancy, ";
in sub-paragraph (b), after " was " insert " , and continues to be, ".
1. The Real Rights Act 1693 The whole Act. 2. The Register of Sasines Act 1693 The whole Act. 3. . . . 4. . . . 5. The Registration of Leases (Scotland) Act 1857 6. The Land Registers (Scotland) Act 1868 (a) Sections 2 and 3 (b) Sections 5 to 7 (c) Section 9 (d) Section 12 (da) Section 14 (e) ... (f) Section 23 7. The Titles to Land Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1868 (a) ... (b) Sections 12 and 13 and Schedules F and G insofar as relating to sections 12 and 13 respectively (c) ... (d) ... (e) ... (f) ... (g) Section 142 (h) Section 143 (i) ... (j) ... (k) Schedule G 8. The Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1874 (a) Section 8 (b) ... (c) Section 61 (d) Schedule M 9. The Writs Execution (Scotland) Act 1877 Sections 5 and 6 10. . . . 11. The Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1924 (a) Section 3, form 1 of Schedule A ... (b) Section 4 and, in Schedule B, forms 1 to 6 and Note 7, but not insofar as relating to the completion of title under section 74 or 76 of the Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1845 (c) Section 8 and Schedule D (d) ... (e) ... (f) In section 24(2) and (3) and that part of subsection (5) from the words “provided that” to the end (ga) Section 46 (h) Section 47 (i) Sections 48 and 49(2) (j) Schedule J 12. . . . 13. . . . 14. The Public Registers and Records (Scotland) Act 1948 (a) Section 2 (b) Section 4 15. The Public Registers and Records (Scotland) Act 1950 Section 1(1) 16. The Conveyancing and Feudal Reform (Scotland) Act 1970 The Whole Act. 17. The Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973 Section 1.
The whole Act.
Section 3, form 1 of Schedule A and Note 2 to Schedule K
Section 4 and, in Schedule B, forms 1 to 6 and Note 7, but not insofar as relating to the completion of title under section 74 or 76 of the Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1845
Section 8 and Schedule D
Section 9(3) and (4)
Section 10(1) to (5) and Schedule F
In section 24(3) from "and such lease, before" to " Schedule B to this Act "
Section 24(2) and (5) and Schedule J
Section 47
Sections 48 and 49(2)
Section 2
Section 4
Section 1.
In section 6, from the beginning of the section to " to the extent assigned " and Schedule D
Section 12
Section 15
Section 16
Section 8
In section 32, from the beginning to " shall be sufficient" and Schedule H
Section 61
Schedule M
Section 1(1) (except the words from " and any writ" to " appropriate burgh register of sasines ") and Schedule 1. insofar as relating to section 1(1) with that exception
Section 1(2)
Section 2 and Schedule 1 insofar as relating to section 2
Section 5 and Schedule 1 insofar as relating to section 5
Section 1(1)
The whole Act
Sections 2 and 3
Sections 5 to 7
Section 9
Sections 12 to 14
In section 19, the proviso
Section 23
Sections 5 and 6
Section 1.
Section 1(2)
Section 6(1) and (2)
Section 12(1) and (2) and Notes 1, 2 and 3 to Schedule 2 insofar as relating to section 12(2)
Section 28(3)
Sections 1 to 4 and Schedule B insofar as relating to section 1.
Sections 9 and 10 and Schedules C and D
Sections 12 and 13 and Schedules F and G insofar as relating to sections 12 and 13 respectively
Section 17
Section 19 and Schedule L
Section 120
Section 141
Section 142
Section 143
Section 146
Schedule D
Schedule G
Section 29(4)