Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1924

38 Periods of advertisement and newspapers

(1) The period of advertisement shall not be less than four consecutive weeks when the upset price or the cumulo upset prices of the land do not exceed one thousand pounds, and, when such price or cumulo prices exceed that amount, such period shall not be less than six consecutive weeks, in each case prior to the date of exposure to sale.

(2) During the period of advertisement such advertisement shall be inserted at least once a week in a daily newspaper published in Edinburgh or in Glasgow, and in every case in a newspaper circulating in the district in which the land or the chief part thereof is situated and published either in the county in which the land or part thereof lies, or in the next or a neighbouring county of Scotland: Provided that as regards land situated in the County of Midlothian due publication of the advertisement in one daily newspaper published in Edinburgh shall be sufficient, and that as regards land situated in the County of Lanark, due publication of the advertisement in one daily newspaper published in Glasgow shall be sufficient: Provided also that where the upset price, or the cumulo upset prices, of the land do not exceed one thousand pounds, it shall be sufficient if such advertisement be inserted at least twice a week in a newspaper circulating in the district in which the land or the chief part thereof is situated and published either in the county in which the land or part thereof lies or in the next or a neighbouring county of Scotland, or once a week in each of two such newspapers, or once a week in such newspaper and once a week in a Scottish daily newspaper circulating in the district, irrespective of the place of publication in Scotland of such daily newspaper.

(3) The date of exposure shall not be less than twenty-eight days if the upset price or the cumulo upset prices do not exceed one thousand pounds, and forty-two days if the upset price or the cumulo upset prices exceed one thousand pounds, both from the date of the first insertion of the advertisement.

(4) The same provisions as to advertisement and place and date of exposure shall apply in the event of re-exposure, except that the period of advertisement shall not be less than three consecutive Weeks, and that the date of exposure shall be not less than twenty-one days from the date of the first insertion of the advertisement.

(5) A copy of any such advertisement with a certificate by the publisher, printer, or editor of the newspaper in which the same is inserted, shall be sufficient evidence of such advertisement.

(6) For the purposes of this section, a week shall mean a period of seven consecutive days.