Subsection (2) defines a "company limited by guarantee" and "sustainable development" where it relates to a crofting community.

Subsection (3) defines a crofting community but allows for modification of that definition by Ministers and subsection (4) explains the meaning of the term "crofting township" which is used in the definition of crofting community in subsection (3).

Section 79: Provisions supplementary to section 78

This section specifies the constraints which apply to a crofting community body after it has acquired land under the legislation, the sanction for non compliance and the basis on which that sanction will be applied.

Subsection (1) prohibits any crofting community body, which has acquired land under the Bill and continues to own that land, from amending its memorandum or articles of association except with the consent of Ministers.

Subsection (2) allows Ministers to acquire land from a crofting community body, by means of compulsory purchase, where that body purchased the land under the Bill and it never was or is no longer entitled to do so.

Subsection (3) states that The Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act 1947 applies to any compulsory purchase by Ministers under subsection (2).