CHAPTER 2 EXERCISE OF RIGHT TO BUY

Section 80: Application by crofting community body for consent to buy croft land

This section deals with the process of applying to exercise the crofting community right to buy.

Subsection (1) provides that only a crofting community body may exercise the right to buy.

Subsection (2) further provides that the exercise of that right requires the consent of Ministers and that such consent must be obtained by a written application.

Subsection (3) provides that there must be a separate right to buy application in respect of each holding of land or of a sporting interest which the crofting community body is seeking to purchase. Subsection (4) defines what a holding of land or of a sporting interest is for this purpose.

Subsection (5) provides that the application must be made in the prescribed form and sets out certain information which must accompany the application.

Subsection (6) defines sustainable development for the purposes of subsection (5)(g).