http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2012/5/section/6Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012An Act of the Scottish Parliament to reform and restate the law on the registration of rights to land in the land register; to enable electronic conveyancing and registration of electronic documents in the land register; to provide for the closure of the Register of Sasines in due course; to make provision about the functions of the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland; to allow electronic documents to be used for certain contracts, unilateral obligations and trusts that must be constituted by writing; to provide about the formal validity of electronic documents and for their registration; and for connected purposes.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2024-05-20Expert Participation2024-03-04 Part 1 The Land Register<Emphasis>Title sheets and the title sheet record</Emphasis>The property section of the title sheet61The Keeper must enter in the property section of the title sheet—aa description—iof the plot of land (being a description by reference to the cadastral map),iiof the nature of the proprietor's right in the plot of land, andiiiif the plot is a separate tenement, of the nature of the tenement,bthe particulars of any incorporeal pertinents (including, if there is a burdened property, the particulars of that property in so far as known),cany agreement registered under section 66(2),dany entry required under section 18(2)(a) or paragraph 7(a) of schedule 1,eif the title sheet is a lease title sheet, the particulars of the lease, andfwhere there is for the area of land another title sheet (as for example for a plot which is a separate tenement), the title number of that other title sheet.2Paragraph (f) of subsection (1) does not apply where the other title sheet is the title sheet of a flat in a flatted building.S. 6 in force at 8.12.2014 by S.S.I. 2014/127, art. 2
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