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Right to Buy Land to Further Sustainable Development (Applications, Written Requests, Ballots and Compensation) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. No. 21 of 2020).

Country/Territory
United Kingdom
Territorial subdivision
Scotland
Document type
Regulation
Date
2020
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Fisheries, Land & soil, Water
Keyword
Inland fisheries Land reform Land tenure Transfer Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Dispute settlement Sustainable development Water rights
Geographical area
Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Atlantic, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe
Abstract

These Regulations make provision in connection with procedures related to the right to buy land to further sustainable development under Part 5 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016. Under that Part, community bodies may buy "eligible" land for sustainable development purposes. “Land”— (a) includes— (i) bridges and other structures built on or over land, (ii) inland waters, (iii) canals, (iv) the foreshore, being the land between the high and low water marks of ordinary spring tides, and (v) salmon fishing in inland waters or mineral rights which are owned separately from the land in respect of which they are eligible. The Regulations concern, among other things, the application required to be submitted by a Part 5 community body that wishes to apply to Ministers for consent to exercise a right to buy under section 54 of the 2016 Act, the written request that a Part 5 community body must send to a land owner or tenant under sections 56(3)(a) or (7)(a) of the 2016 Act respectively, a response from the land owner to a request, circumstances in which the land owner is taken to have not responded or not agreed to a request, dispute procedures.

Full text
English
Website
www.opsi.gov.uk

References - Legislation

Implements

Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016 (2016 asp 18).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 2016

Keyword: Agricultural development, Sustainable development, Sustainable use, Food security, Private forest, Framework law, Basic legislation, Land reform, Land tenure, Policy/planning, Institution, Lease, Agricultural land, Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings, Servitude, Land-use planning, Land valuation, Non-governmental entity, Ownership, Private land, Cultural heritage, Common property, Community management, Smallholders/peasants, Management/conservation, Protection of species

Source: FAO, FAOLEX