Small Landholders And Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1931 (c. 44)

Part I U.K. Amendment of the Small Landholders (Scotland) Acts

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 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)

8 Amendment of provisions as to resumption of holdings. U.K.

(1) The occupation by a landlord, for the purpose of personally residing thereon, of a holding being his only landed estate, shall not be a reasonable purpose in respect of which the Land Court may authorise resumption by the landlord of a holding.

(2) The words in section nineteen of the Act of 1911, from “the feuing,” to “estate or,” and the word “respectively,” are hereby repealed, and the reference in paragraph (15) of section thirty-two of the said Act to the said section nineteen shall be construed accordingly.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2 S. 8 restricted by Crofters (Scotland) Act 1955 (3 & 4 Eliz. 2 c. 21), s. 38(3), Sch. 6 Pt. I