Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000

InterpretationS

49 Interpretation of Part 4S

In this Part of this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

• “conservation body” means a body prescribed [F1by order under section 38(4) of the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9)];

• “conservation burden” shall be construed in accordance with [F2sections 27(1) and 27A(1)] of this Act;

• “development value burden” and “development value” shall be construed in accordance with section 33 of this Act;

• [F3“economic development burden” shall be construed in accordance with section 18B(3) of this Act;

• “health care burden” shall be construed in accordance with section 18C(3) of this Act;

• “local authority” means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39);]

• “notary public” includes any person duly authorised by the law of the country (other than Scotland) in which the swearing or affirmation takes place to administer oaths or receive affirmations in that other country;

• [F4“personal pre-emption burden” and “personal redemption burden” shall be construed in accordance with section 18A(5) of this Act]

• “real burden”—

  (a)

  includes—

  (i)

  a right of pre-emption;

  (ii)

  a right of redemption; or

  (iii)

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  provided that it is constituted as a real burden; but

  (b)

  does not include a pecuniary real burden [F6or sporting rights (as defined by section 65A(9) of this Act)];

• “registering” means registering an interest in land (or information relating to such an interest) in the Land Register of Scotland or, as the case may be, recording a document in the Register of Sasines; and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly; and

• “superior” means a person who has right to the immediate superiority or to any over-superiority, whether or not he has completed title (and if more than one person comes within either of those descriptions then, in relation to that description, the person who has most recently acquired such right) and “former superior” shall be construed accordingly.