Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1949

19 Removal of tenant for non-payment of rent

(1) When six months' rent of an agricultural holding is due and unpaid, the landlord shall be entitled to raise an action of removing in the sheriff court against the tenant, concluding for his removal from the holding at the term of Whitsunday or Martinmas next ensuing after the action is raised, and the sheriff may, unless the arrears of rent then due are paid or caution is found to his satisfaction for them, and for one year's rent further, decern the tenant to remove, and may eject him at the said term in like manner as if the lease were determined and the tenant had been legally warned to remove.

(2) A tenant of a holding removed under the foregoing subsection shall have the rights of an outgoing tenant to which he would have been entitled if his tenancy had terminated naturally at the term of Whitsunday or Martinmas aforesaid.

(3) The provisions of section five of chapter XV of Book L of the Codifying Act of Sederunt of the fourteenth day of June, nineteen hundred and thirteen, anent removings shall not apply in any case where the procedure under this section is competent.