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New member for Scottish Land Court
15/10/2002
The Queen, on the recommendation of the First Minister,
has appointed Mr Angus MacDonald as a member of the
Scottish Land Court with effect from 4 November 2002.
Mr Angus MacDonald will succeed Mr Donald Macdonald who
has now retired. The appointment will be on a part-time
basis
Mr Angus MacDonald, age 51, from Skye is a fluent Gaelic
speaker and has wide practical and administrative
experience of agriculture in the Highlands and Islands.
The Scottish Land Court was established in 1911 under
the Small Landholders Tenure Scotland Act. The work of the
Court is essentially judicial in character and at present
mainly involved in Crofting. Appointments to the Court are
made by the Queen on the recommendation of the First
Minister. Legislation requires that one of its members
should be a Gaelic speaker.