(1)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.
(2)In 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.
(3)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.
(4)In 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 M1Titles to Land Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1868, section 3 of the M2Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1874, and section 2 of the M3Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1924;
[F1“duly registered or recorded” means registered in the Land Register of Scotland or recorded in the Register of Sasines;]
“Lands Tribunal” means the Lands Tribunal for Scotland;
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“Register of Sasines” has the meaning assigned to it in section 2 of the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1924.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 53(4) substituted (8.12.2014) by Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5), ss. 122, 123, sch. 5 para. 17(18) (with s. 121, sch. 4 paras. 13, 16); S.S.I. 2014/127, art. 2
F2S. 53(4): definition of "prescribed" repealed (28.11.2004) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 122(1), 128(2), 129(2), sch. 15 (with ss. 119, 121); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2
Marginal Citations