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1 Although formerly made up of part of the crofting counties of Inverness-shire and Ross & Cromarty, the Western Isles are here treated separately.
2 Feedback from these meetings has also been supplemented with notes taken at a crofter's meeting on Jura and a board of trustees meeting on Gigha in June 2005.
3 A public meeting was held on the Isle of Arran. The feedback is not included here, since the island is currently outside of the crofting countries. However, individual comments from Arran are included in section 4. The draft Bill was sent out for consultation in March 2005. However, it is unknown if those present at the meetings raised issues based on the presentation alone or the presentation and prior knowledge of the Bill
4 From the meeting notes, Benbecula appear to be the only group aware that the Bill did not remove cultivating the land as a tenant's obligation
5 a similar issue was raised by crofters in Caithness during an informal meeting with a CC board member
6 Decrofting is an issue for tenants not owner occupiers.
7 it is also unclear whether this question, in terms of wind energy, relates to a few small turbines or large industrial turbines, which often produce different social and economic impacts
8 Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993 (c.44), Schedule 2, paragraph 11(h).
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