http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2016/18

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/18/section/17/2017-11-30

Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016

An Act of the Scottish Parliament to make provision for a land rights and responsibilities statement; to establish the Scottish Land Commission, provide for its functions and the functions of the Land Commissioners and the Tenant Farming Commissioner; to make provision about access to, and provision of, information about owners and controllers of land; to make provision about engaging communities in decisions relating to land; to enable certain persons to buy land to further sustainable development; to make provision for non-domestic rates to be levied on shootings and deer forests; to make provision about the change of use of common good land; to make provision about the management of deer on land; to make provision about access rights to land; to amend the law on agricultural holdings to provide for new forms of agricultural tenancy, to remove the requirement to register before tenants of certain holdings can exercise a right to buy, to provide a new power of sale where a landlord is in breach of certain obligations, to provide about rent reviews, to expand the list of the persons to whom holdings can be assigned or bequeathed and to whom holdings can be transferred on intestacy and to make provision about landlords' objections to such successor tenants, to provide for certain holdings to be relinquished where landlords agree or assigned to persons new to or progressing in farming, to provide for a 3 year amnesty period in relation to certain improvements carried out by tenants, and to provide for notice of certain improvements proposed by landlords; and for connected purposes.

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Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016

specified provision(s)

The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016 (Commencement No. 6, Transitory and Saving Provisions) (Modern Limited Duration Tenancies) Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2017

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PART 2The Scottish Land Commission

CHAPTER 1The Commission

Operational matters

I117Committees

1

The Commission may establish committees for any purpose relating to—

a

its functions,

b

the functions of the Land Commissioners,

c

the functions of the Tenant Farming Commissioner.

2

The Commission may authorise any committee to exercise such of its functions, and to such extent, as it may determine.

3

Nothing in subsection (2) affects the responsibility of the Commission for the exercise of its functions.

4

The Commission may appoint a person who is not a member of the Commission to be a member of a committee.

5

The Commission may pay to a person who is not a member of the Commission and who is appointed to a committee—

a

such remuneration as the Commission may, with the approval of the Scottish Ministers, determine, and

b

such allowances in respect of expenses properly incurred in the exercise of the functions of the Commission, of the Land Commissioners or of the Tenant Farming Commissioner as may be so determined.

6

A committee must comply with any directions given to it by the Commission.