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Part 8 Rectification of the register
Part 9 Rights of persons acquiring etc. in good faith
Part 10 Electronic documents, electronic conveyancing and electronic registration
Land transactions: overseas entities
1.Cases where Keeper must reject application under section 21
2.(1) This paragraph applies where— (a) a person applies under...
3.Cases where Keeper must reject application to register notice of title
4.(1) This paragraph applies where— (a) by virtue of section...
7.Consent to registration of certain deeds that cannot otherwise be registered
Amendment of Registration of Leases (Scotland) Act 1857
1.The Registration of Leases (Scotland) Act 1857 (c.26) is amended...
2.In section 1 (long leases, and assignations thereof, registrable in...
4.In section 2 (recorded leases effectual against singular successors in...
8.In section 10 (adjudgers to complete right by recording abbreviate)—...
9.In section 12 (preferences regulated by date of recording transfer)—...
11.In section 13 (renunciations and discharges to be recorded)—
15.In section 16 (registration equivalent to possession), after subsection (2)...
16.After section 20B (as inserted by section 52) insert— Disapplication...
17.Before schedule (A.) insert— SCHEDULE (ZA.) FORM OF ASSIGNATION OF...
18.In each of schedules (A.) (form of assignation of lease),...
20.Schedule (B.) (form of bond and assignation in security) and...
21.Schedule (D.) (form of translation of assignation in security) and...
22.Before schedule (G.) insert— SCHEDULE (ZG.) RENUNCIATION OF LEASE REGISTERED...
Amendment of Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995
2.After section 1 insert— Part 2 Traditional documents Application of...
3.In section 2 (type of writing required for formal validity...
6.In section 3 (presumption as to granter's subscription or date...
8.In section 4 (presumption as to granter's subscription or date...
9.In section 5 (alterations to documents: formal validity and presumptions)—...
10.In the title of section 5, for “documents” substitute “...
11.In section 6 (registration of documents)— (a) in subsection (1),...
12.In the title of section 6, for “documents” substitute “...
14.In section 7 (subscription and signing)— (a) in subsection (1),...
15.In section 8 (annexations to documents)— (a) in subsection (1),...
16.In the title of section 8, for “documents” substitute “...
17.In section 9 (subscription on behalf of blind granter or...
20.In section 13 (Crown application), in subsection (1)(c), after “Sasines”...
23.In schedule 1 (alterations made to documents after subscription)—
24.In the title to schedule 1, for “document” substitute “...
26.In schedule 3 (modifications of the Act in relation to...
27.In paragraph 1 of schedule 4 (minor and consequential amendments)—...
1.On the designated day an existing title sheet becomes part...
2.An existing title sheet which becomes, under paragraph 1, part...
4.An existing title sheet as respects an interest of ownership...
5.An existing title sheet as respects an interest of tenancy...
6.Section 12(2) does not apply to a cadastral unit created...
Certain deeds relating to registered leases: Sasine arrangements
17.If there is in the register, immediately before the designated...
18.For the purpose of determining whether the Keeper has the...
21.Section 77(4) and (5) applies in relation to a payment...
22.If there is in the register, immediately before the designated...
23.Where, by virtue of paragraph 22, a person suffers loss...
Minor and consequential modifications
Transmission of Moveable Property (Scotland) Act 1862 (c.85)
Matrimonial Homes (Family Protection) (Scotland) Act 1981 (c.59)
Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c.41)
Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions)(Scotland) Act 1985 (c.73)
Public Finance and Accountability (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 1)
Stirling-Alloa-Kincardine Railway and Linked Improvements Act 2004 (asp 10)
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Act 2007 (asp 19)
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