Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951

24 Application of Part II in Scotland. E+W+S

In the application of the preceding sections of this Part of this Act to Scotland—

(a) for any reference to the Minister of Local Government and Planning or to the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries there shall be substituted a reference to the Secretary of State; and for any reference to the county court there shall be substituted a reference to the sheriff;

(b) for references to the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1948, and to sections twenty-four, twenty-five and twenty-six thereof, there shall be respectively substituted references to the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act, 1949, and to sections twenty-five, twenty-six and twenty-seven thereof; F1 . . .; and for any reference to such a dwelling-house as is mentioned in paragraph 1 of the Seventh Schedule to the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1948, there shall be substituted a reference to a dwelling-house comprised in an agricultural holding and occupied by the person responsible for the control (whether as tenant or as servant or agent of the tenant) of the farming of the holding;

F2 (c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(d) for any reference to the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, there shall be substituted a reference to the Town and Country (Scotland) Act, 1947, and for references to the Furnished Houses (Rent Control) Act, 1946, and to section eight thereof, there shall be respectively substituted references to the Rent of Furnished Houses Control (Scotland) Act, 1943, and to section six thereof;

(e) for any reference to a valuation list there shall be substituted a reference to a valuation roll; for any reference to a hereditament there shall be substituted a reference to lands and heritages; and for any reference to intoxicating liquor there shall be substituted a reference to excisable liquor;

(f) the expression “licence” means a right or permission derived otherwise than under a lease; and any reference to the reversion immediately expectant on a tenancy shall be construed as a reference to the interest of the immediate landlord of the tenant under the tenancy;

F3 (g) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

X1 (h) section sixteen of this Act shall have effect as if for subsection (8) there were substituted the following subsection—

“(8) A notice for the purposes of this section may be served in like manner as a notice under section three hundred and forty-nine of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1947.”

[F4 (j) for any reference to the Rent Restrictions Acts there shall be substituted a reference to the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971; and for any reference, however expressed, to a dwelling-house to which the Rent Restrictions Acts apply there shall be substituted a reference to a dwelling-house subject to a statutory tenancy within the meaning of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971.]

Editorial Information

X1 The text of s. 24(h), which is spent, is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991

Textual Amendments

F1 Words repealed by Agriculture Act 1958 (c. 71), Sch. 2 Pt. II

F2 S. 24(c) repealed by Agriculture Act 1958 (c. 71), Sch. 2 Pt. II

F3 S. 24(g) repealed by Police (Scotland) Act 1967 (c. 77), Sch. 5

F4 S. 24(j) added by Rent (Scotland) Act 1971 (c. 28), s. 135(2), Sch. 18 Pt. II