Explanatory Notes

Long Leases (Scotland) Act 2012

2012 asp 9

7 August 2012

Part 2: Conversion of Certain Leasehold Conditions to Real Burdens

Personal real burdens

Section 25: Conversion to health care burden

112.This section allows the Scottish Ministers when they have the right to enforce a qualifying condition which was imposed for the purpose of promoting the provision of facilities for health care to convert that condition into a health care burden in their favour.

113.Subsection (1) provides for the execution and registration of a notice.

114.Subsection (2) sets out the content of the notice. Further provision as to counter-obligations (paragraph (e)) is made in section 34.

115.Subsection (3) provides for registration of the notice against the burdened property. Registration can be against either the title of the owner or the title of the tenant.

116.Subsection (4) converts the qualifying condition on the appointed day into a health care burden in favour of the Scottish Ministers provided that the requirements of the section have been complied with and that immediately before the appointed day the qualifying condition is still enforceable.

117.The section is subject to section 36, which makes further provision in relation to notices, and section 75, which deals with pre-registration requirements for notices.