Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951

24 Application of Part II to Scotland

In the application of the preceding sections of this Part of this Act to Scotland—

(a) for any reference to the Minister of Local Government and Planning or to the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries there shall be substituted a reference to the Secretary of State; and for any reference to the county court there shall be substituted a reference to the sheriff;

(b) for references to the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1948, and to sections twenty-four, twenty-five and twenty-six thereof, there shall be respectively substituted references to the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act, 1949, and to sections twenty-five, twenty-six and twenty-seven thereof; for references to the Agricultural Land Tribunal and to references thereto there shall be respectively substituted references to the Scottish Land Court and to appeals thereto; and for any reference to such a dwelling-house as is mentioned in paragraph 1 of the Seventh Schedule to the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1948, there shall be substituted a reference to a dwelling-house comprised in an agricultural holding and occupied by the person responsible for the control (whether as tenant or as servant or agent of the tenant) of the farming of the holding ;

(c) for references to the Agriculture Act, 1947, and to section seventy-two thereof there shall be respectively substituted references to the Agriculture (Scotland) Act, 1948, and to section sixty-nine thereof; and for any reference to a County Agricultural Executive Committee there shall be substituted a reference to an Agricultural Executive Committee;

(d) for any reference to the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, there shall be substituted a reference to the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act, 1947, and for references to the Furnished Houses (Rent Control) Act, 1946, and to section eight thereof, there shall be respectively substituted references to the Rent of Furnished Houses Control (Scotland) Act, 1943, and to section six thereof;

(e) for any reference to a valuation list there shall be substituted a reference to a valuation roll; for any reference to a hereditament there shall be substituted a reference to lands and heritages; and for any reference to intoxicating liquor there shall be substituted a reference to exciseable liquor ;

(f) the expression " licence " means a right or permission derived otherwise than under a lease; and any reference to the reversion immediately expectant on a tenancy shall be construed as a reference to the interest of the immediate landlord of the tenant under the tenancy;

(g) for references to the Police Act, 1946, and to an authority responsible under a scheme for the maintenance of a police force there shall be respectively substituted references to the Police (Scotland) Act, 1946, and to a joint police committee to whom the functions of constituent authorities have been delegated;

(h) section sixteen of this Act shall have effect as if for subsection (8) there were substituted the following subsection—

“(8) A notice for the purposes of this section may be served in like manner as a notice under section three hundred and forty-nine of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1947.”