http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/35/part/VI/1991-02-01Conveyancing and Feudal Reform (Scotland) Act 1970An Act to provide as respects Scotland for the variation and discharge of certain obligations relating to land; to facilitate the allocation of feuduties and ground annuals; to reduce the period of positive prescription of 20 years to 10 years; to provide for a new form of heritable security; to make certain amendments to the existing law relating to heritable securities; to make certain other amendments to the law relating to conveyancing; to abolish the rights of pre-emption of heritors in respect of glebes; to amend the Lands Tribunal Act 1949; and for connected purposes.1972-12-31texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2024-10-111991-02-01 Part VI General Application to Crown.51This Act shall, subject to any exceptions stated therein, apply to land held of the Crown and of the Prince and Steward of Scotland, and to land in which there is any other interest belonging to Her Majesty in right of the Crown or to a Government department, or held on behalf of Her Majesty for the purposes of a Government department, in like manner as it applies to other land. Saving, amendment and repeal.521Any procedure, notice, advertisement, certificate or warrant instituted, given or granted, or any other thing done under any enactment amended or disapplied by this Act, shall not be invalidated by the coming into force of that amendment or disapplication, but it and any sale or other proceedings dependent thereon shall have effect as if this Act had not come into operation.2The enactments specified in Schedule 10 to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in that Schedule, being minor amendments and amendments consequential on the provisions of this Act.3The enactments specified in Schedule 11 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in relation thereto in that Schedule. Interpretation.531It shall be sufficient compliance with any provisions in this Act which require any deed, notice, certificate or procedure to be in conformity with a Form or Note, or other requirement of this Act, that that deed, notice, certificate or procedure so conforms as closely as may be, and nothing in this Act shall preclude the inclusion of any additional matter which the person granting the deed or giving or serving the notice or giving the certificate or adopting the procedure may consider relevant.2In any Form prescribed by Schedules 2,4,5,6 and 9 to this Act, and in any Note to those Schedules, the expression “Register for” means the Register of Sasines appropriate for.3Any reference in this Act to any other enactment is a reference thereto as amended, and includes a reference thereto as extended or applied, by or under any other enactment, including this Act.4In this Act, except Part II, unless the context otherwise requires—conveyance”, “deed” and “instrument” have the meanings assigned to them in section 3 of the Titles to Land Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1868, section 3 of the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1874, and section 2 of the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1924;duly recorded” means recorded in the appropriate Register of Sasines;Lands Tribunal” means the Lands Tribunal for Scotland;prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under section 3 of the Lands Tribunal Act 1949;Register of Sasines” has the meaning assigned to it in section 2 of the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1924. Short title, commencement and extent.541This Act may be cited as the Conveyancing and Feudal Reform (Scotland) Act 19702This Act shall come into operation—aexcept as respects sections 1 to 6, section 50, sections 51 to 53 in so far as they relate to those sections, and this section, at the expiration of a period of six months beginning with the date on which it is passed,bas respects sections 1 to 6 and sections 51 to 53 in so far as they relate to those sections, on such date as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint, and different days may be appointed for different provisions,cas respects section 50, sections 51 to 53 in so far as they relate thereto, and this section, on the passing of this Act;and any reference in any provision of this Act to the commencement of this Act shall, unless otherwise provided by any such order, be construed as a reference to the date on which that provision comes into operation.3This Act shall extend to Scotland only.The text of ss. 2(7), 36, 37, 39, 46, 50, 52(2)(3), Sch. 10 paras. 1, 2–4, 5 and Sch. 11 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.1868 c. 101. 1874 c. 94. 1924 c. 27. 1949 c. 42.
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<Part DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/35/part/VI/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/35/part/VI" NumberOfProvisions="4" RestrictEndDate="2014-12-08" id="part-VI">
<Number>Part VI</Number>
<Title> General</Title>
<P1group RestrictExtent="S" RestrictEndDate="2004-11-28">
<Title> Application to Crown.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/35/section/51/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/35/section/51" id="section-51">
<Pnumber>51</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<Text>This Act shall, subject to any exceptions stated therein, apply to land held of the Crown and of the Prince and Steward of Scotland, and to land in which there is any other interest belonging to Her Majesty in right of the Crown or to a Government department, or held on behalf of Her Majesty for the purposes of a Government department, in like manner as it applies to other land.</Text>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group>
<Title> Saving, amendment and repeal.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/35/section/52/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/35/section/52" id="section-52">
<Pnumber>52</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/35/section/52/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/35/section/52/1" id="section-52-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Any procedure, notice, advertisement, certificate or warrant instituted, given or granted, or any other thing done under any enactment amended or disapplied by this Act, shall not be invalidated by the coming into force of that amendment or disapplication, but it and any sale or other proceedings dependent thereon shall have effect as if this Act had not come into operation.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/35/section/52/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/35/section/52/2" id="section-52-2">
<Pnumber>
<CommentaryRef Ref="c8428331"/>
2
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The enactments specified in Schedule 10 to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in that Schedule, being minor amendments and amendments consequential on the provisions of this Act.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/35/section/52/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/35/section/52/3" id="section-52-3">
<Pnumber>
<CommentaryRef Ref="c8428331"/>
3
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The enactments specified in Schedule 11 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in relation thereto in that Schedule.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictEndDate="2004-11-28" RestrictExtent="S">
<Title> Interpretation.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/35/section/53/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/35/section/53" id="section-53">
<Pnumber>53</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/35/section/53/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/35/section/53/1" id="section-53-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>It shall be sufficient compliance with any provisions in this Act which require any deed, notice, certificate or procedure to be in conformity with a Form or Note, or other requirement of this Act, that that deed, notice, certificate or procedure so conforms as closely as may be, and nothing in this Act shall preclude the inclusion of any additional matter which the person granting the deed or giving or serving the notice or giving the certificate or adopting the procedure may consider relevant.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/35/section/53/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/35/section/53/2" id="section-53-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
In any Form prescribed by Schedules 2,4,5,6 and 9 to this Act, and in any Note to those Schedules, the expression “
<Term id="term-register-for">Register for</Term>
” means the Register of Sasines appropriate for.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/35/section/53/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/35/section/53/3" id="section-53-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Any reference in this Act to any other enactment is a reference thereto as amended, and includes a reference thereto as extended or applied, by or under any other enactment, including this Act.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/35/section/53/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/35/section/53/4" id="section-53-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>In this Act, except Part II, unless the context otherwise requires—</Text>
<UnorderedList Decoration="none" Class="Definition">
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-conveyance">conveyance</Term>
”, “
<Term id="term-deed">deed</Term>
” and “
<Term id="term-instrument">instrument</Term>
” have the meanings assigned to them in section 3 of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c8428351"/>
Titles to Land Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1868, section 3 of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c8428361"/>
Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1874, and section 2 of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c8428371"/>
Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1924;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-duly-recorded">duly recorded</Term>
” means recorded in the appropriate Register of Sasines;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-lands-tribunal">Lands Tribunal</Term>
” means the Lands Tribunal for Scotland;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-prescribed">prescribed</Term>
” means prescribed by rules made under section 3 of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c8428381"/>
Lands Tribunal Act 1949;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-register-of-sasines">Register of Sasines</Term>
” has the meaning assigned to it in section 2 of the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1924.
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
</UnorderedList>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group>
<Title> Short title, commencement and extent.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/35/section/54/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/35/section/54" id="section-54">
<Pnumber>54</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/35/section/54/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/35/section/54/1" id="section-54-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>This Act may be cited as the Conveyancing and Feudal Reform (Scotland) Act 1970</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/35/section/54/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/35/section/54/2" id="section-54-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>This Act shall come into operation—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/35/section/54/2/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/35/section/54/2/a" id="section-54-2-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>except as respects sections 1 to 6, section 50, sections 51 to 53 in so far as they relate to those sections, and this section, at the expiration of a period of six months beginning with the date on which it is passed,</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/35/section/54/2/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/35/section/54/2/b" id="section-54-2-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>as respects sections 1 to 6 and sections 51 to 53 in so far as they relate to those sections, on such date as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint, and different days may be appointed for different provisions,</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/35/section/54/2/c/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/35/section/54/2/c" id="section-54-2-c">
<Pnumber>c</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>as respects section 50, sections 51 to 53 in so far as they relate thereto, and this section, on the passing of this Act;</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>and any reference in any provision of this Act to the commencement of this Act shall, unless otherwise provided by any such order, be construed as a reference to the date on which that provision comes into operation.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/35/section/54/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/35/section/54/3" id="section-54-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>This Act shall extend to Scotland only.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
</Part>
</Body>
</Primary>
<Commentaries>
<Commentary id="c8428331" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>The text of ss. 2(7), 36, 37, 39, 46, 50, 52(2)(3), Sch. 10 paras. 1, 2–4, 5 and Sch. 11 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c8428351" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1868/101" id="c00921" Year="1868" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="101">1868 c. 101</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c8428361" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1874/94" id="c00922" Year="1874" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="94">1874 c. 94</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c8428371" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1924/27" id="c00923" Year="1924" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="27">1924 c. 27</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c8428381" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1949/42" id="c01784" Year="1949" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42">1949 c. 42</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
</Commentaries>
</Legislation>