Pipe-lines Act 1962

General Application to Scotland

67 General application to Scotland

(1) The provisions of this section shall, in addition to any express provision for the application to Scotland of any provision of this Act, have effect for the general application of this Act to Scotland.

(2) For any reference in this Act to chattels there shall be substituted a reference to corporeal moveables.

(3) As soon as may be after a compulsory rights order has become operative under the Statutory Orders (Special Procedure) Act, 1945, it shall be recorded by the Minister in the Register of Sasines; and any order varying or revoking a compulsory rights order in whole or in part shall be so recorded.

(4) For the purposes of sections twenty-seven to twenty-nine of this Act, a tenant, crofter, small landholder or statutory small tenant shall be deemed to be an owner of any building or structure on his holding or croft if he would, on the termination of his tenancy, be entitled to compensation under the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act, 1949, the Crofters (Scotland) Acts, 1955 and 1961, or the Small Landholders (Scotland) Acts, 1886 to 1931, as the case may be, for such building or structure as an improvement; and any proceedings under subsection (5) of section twenty-eight, or subsection (2) of section twenty-nine, of this Act which relate to any such building or structure shall be brought in the Scottish Land Court and not before the sheriff.

(5) For any reference in this Act to the Lands Tribunal there shall be substituted a reference to the Lands Tribunal for Scotland:

Provided that until sections one to three of the Lands Tribunal Act, 1949, come into force as regards Scotland, this subsection shall have effect as if for the reference to the Lands Tribunal for Scotland there were substituted a reference to an official arbiter appointed under the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919 ; and sections three, five and six of that Act shall apply, subject to any necessary modifications, in relation to the determination of any question under this Act by an arbiter so appointed.