C1Part I Amendment of the Small Landholders (Scotland) Acts
2 Department to be entitled to require information.
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The Department, with a view to ascertaining whether any land is suitable or available for small holdings shall be entitled, by notice in writing served on the landlord of such land, to require the landlord to give such information as to the occupiers thereof, and the terms of their tenancies, as may be specified in the notice, or to allow copies to be made of any leases of such land, and if any landlord fails without reasonable excuse to comply with any such requirement within one month after the service of the notice he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding F1level 1 on the standard scale.
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A landlord shall be entitled to recover from the Department any expenses reasonably incurred by him in complying with a requisition under the foregoing subsection.
Pt. I applied with modifications by Sheep Stocks Valuation (Scotland) Act 1937 (c. 34), s. 3(2), Agriculture (Scotland) Act 1948 (c. 45), s. 72, Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1949 (c. 75), s. 73, Crofters (Scotland) Act 1955 (3 & 4 Eliz. 2 c. 21), s. 34(1), Land Drainage (Scotland) Act 1958 (c. 24), s. 14, Opencast Coal Act 1958 (c. 69), s. 52(5)(b) and Deer (Scotland) Act 1959 (c. 40), s. 11(4); amended by Crofters (Scotland) Act 1961 (c. 58), s. 2(7)