The Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (Rural Housing Bodies) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2014

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2014 No. 220

Title Conditions

The Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (Rural Housing Bodies) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2014

Made

12th August 2014

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

14th August 2014

Coming into force

29th October 2014

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 43(5) of the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.

They are satisfied as to the matters mentioned in section 43(6)(2) of that Act.

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (Rural Housing Bodies) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2014 and comes into force on 29th October 2014.

Amendment of the list of prescribed rural housing bodies

2.—(1) The Schedule to the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (Rural Housing Bodies) Order 2004(3) (rural housing bodies prescribed under section 43(5) of the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003) is amended as follows.

(2) After “Muirneag Housing Association Limited” insert the following body—

• Mull and Iona Community Trust.

R CUNNINGHAM

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

12th August 2014

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the list of prescribed rural housing bodies in the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (Rural Housing Bodies) Order 2004. “Mull and Iona Community Trust” is added to the list of prescribed rural housing bodies. Rural housing bodies are bodies in favour of whom it is competent to create a rural housing burden comprising a right of pre-emption under section 43(1) of the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003.

A Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared and placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre. Copies can be obtained from the Scottish Government, Civil Law and Legal System Division, GW.15, St Andrew’s House, Regent Road, Edinburgh EH1 3DG.

(1)

2003 asp 9.

(2)

Section 43(6) was amended by paragraph 12(b) of schedule 4 to the Tenements (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 11).

(3)

S.S.I. 2004/477, amended by S.S.I. 2006/108, S.S.I. 2007/58 and S.S.I. 2007/535, S.S.I. 2008/391, S.S.I. 2013/100 and S.S.I. 2014/130.