Part 3The crofting community right to buy
Chapter 5General and miscellaneous provisions
94Register of Crofting Community Rights to Buy
1
The Crofters Commission shall set up and keep (or secure that there is set up and kept) a register to be known as the Register of Crofting Community Rights to Buy (the “crofting register”).
2
The crofting register shall be set up and kept so as to contain, in a manner and form convenient for public inspection, the following information and documents relating to each application to exercise the right to buy registered in it—
a
the name and address of the registered office of the company which constitutes the crofting community body which has submitted the application;
b
a copy of the application;
c
a copy of Ministers' decision consenting or refusing to consent to the exercise of the right to buy;
d
a copy of—
i
any notice of withdrawal by the crofting community body of an application to exercise the right to buy;
ii
any notice of confirmation by the body of its intention to proceed to exercise that right;
iii
any notice withdrawing that confirmation; and
iv
any acknowledgement by Ministers of receipt of notice such as is mentioned in sub-paragraphs (i) to (iii) above; and
e
such other information as Ministers consider appropriate.
3
Ministers may, by order, modify paragraphs (a) to (e) of subsection (2) above.
4
Any person who, under this Part of this Act, provides a document or other information, or makes a decision, which or a copy of which is to be registered in the crofting register shall, forthwith on providing the document or other information or, as the case may be, making the decision, give it or a copy of it to the Crofters Commission for the purpose of allowing it to be so registered.
5
The Crofters Commission shall ensure—
a
that the crofting register is, at all reasonable times, available for public inspection free of charge;
b
that members of the public are given facilities for getting copies of entries in the crofting register on payment of reasonable charges;
c
that any person requesting it is, on payment of such a charge, supplied with an extract entry certified to be a true copy of the original.
6
An extract so certified shall be sufficient evidence of the original.