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DRAFT LAND REFORM (SCOTLAND) BILL: Consultation Paper

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Subsection (2) specifies information and documents that must be kept in the Register and provides that these must be kept available for public inspection and in an accessible form.

Subsections (3) to (5) give Ministers power to make orders which modify what may be held on that Register and set out the procedure to be followed in making such an order.

Subsections (6) and (7) provide for public access to the Register, provision of copies of entries on payment of a charge, certification of copies and the use of certified copies as evidence of the original.

Section 102: Avoidance of disposal other than to crofting community body

This section provides that after Ministers approve a right to buy application the owner of the land or interest in land over which the right to buy has been approved may not thereafter sell it to anyone other than the crofting community body. It further provides that the prohibition on sale will end if the body decides not to exercise the right to buy or withdraws the crofting community right to buy application.

Section 103: Disposal of land by crofting community body

This section provides (subsection (1)) that a crofting community body may not dispose of land or sporting interests in land which it has acquired through the exercise of the crofting community right to buy.

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