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Crofting Reform (Scotland) Act 2010

Grazings committees: duty to report misuse etc.

Section 38: Grazings committees: duty to report breaches of crofters’ and owner-occupier crofters’ duties etc.

105.This section inserts new section 49A into the 1993 Act, which requires grazings committees to report breaches of duties to the Commission and sets out a process and requirements for doing so.  Subsection (1) sets out the issues on which a grazings committee must report to the Commission.  These are the conditions of the common grazing, crofts of tenant and owner-occupier crofters with a share in the grazing and any other matter the Commission may require.  Subsection (2) requires a grazings committee’s report to also include any breach of duty by a tenant or owner-occupier crofter and subsection (3) allows the report to cover any other information affecting the common grazing or crofting in any township associated with the common grazing the committee consider appropriate.

106.Subsection (4) requires the first grazings committee report to be submitted to the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable after 1 year of this section coming into force and subsection (5) provides for 5-yearly reports to be submitted thereafter.

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