PART 4COMMUNITY RIGHTS TO BUY LAND

Modifications of Part 2 of Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003

I1I240Public notice of certain applications

In section 37 of the 2003 Act (registration of interest in land)—

a

in subsection (4)(b), at the beginning, insert “ (except in the case of a proposed application of the type mentioned in subsection (4B)) ”, and

b

after subsection (4), insert—

4A

Ministers are not to be satisfied under subsection (3) in relation to a proposed application of the type mentioned in subsection (4B) unless the applicant community body has given public notice of the proposed application by advertising it in such manner as may be prescribed.

4B

The type of proposed application is one to register a community interest in land consisting of salmon fishings, or mineral rights, which are owned separately from the land in respect of which they are exigible.