Improvements authorized by this Act are the making or execution on, or in connexion with, and for the benefit of settled land, of any of the following works, or of any works for any of the following purposes, and any operation incident to or necessary or proper in the execution of any of those works, or necessary or proper for carrying into effect any of those purposes, or for securing the full benefit of any of those works or purposes (namely):
(i)Drainage, including the straightening, widening, or deepening of drains, streams and watercourses:
(ii)Irrigation; warping:
(iii)Drains, pipes, and machinery for supply and distribution of sewage as manure:
(iv)Embanking or weiring from a river or lake, or from the sea, or a tidal water:
(v)Groynes; sea walls; defences against water:
(vi)Inclosing; straightening of fences; re-division of fields:
(vii)Reclamation; dry warping:
(viii)Farm roads; [F1private roads; roads or streets][F1roads (other than roads within the meaning of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984); private roads (within the meaning of the said Act of 1984)] in villages or towns:
(ix)Clearing; trenching; planting:
(x)Cottages for labourers, farm-servants, and artisans, employed on the settled land or not:
(xi)Farmhouses, offices, and out-buildings, and other buildings for farm purposes:
(xii)Saw-mills, scutch-mills, and other mills, water-wheels, engine-houses, and kilns, which will increase the value of the settled land for agricultural purposes or as woodland or otherwise:
(xiii)Reservoirs, tanks, conduits, watercourses, pipes, wells, ponds, shafts, dams, weirs, sluices and other works and machinery for supply and distribution of water for agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, or for domestic or other consumption:
(xiv)Tramways; railways; canals; docks:
(xv)Jetties, piers, and landing places on rivers, lakes, the sea, or tidal waters, for facilitating transport of persons and of agricultural stock and produce, and of manure and other things required for agricultural purposes, and of minerals, and of things required for mining purposes:
(xvi)Markets and market-places:
(xvii)[F2Streets], roads, paths, squares, gardens, or other open spaces for the use, gratuitously or on payment, of the public or of individuals, or for dedication to the public, the same being necessary or proper in connexion with the conversion of land into building land:
(xviii)Sewers, drains, watercourses, pipe-making, fencing, paving, brick-making, tile-making, and other works necessary or proper in connexion with any of the objects aforesaid:
(xix)Trial pits for mines, and other preliminary works necessary or proper in connexion with development of mines:
(xx)Reconstruction, enlargement, or improvement of any of those works.
Textual Amendments
F1Words beginning “roads (other than roads” substituted (S.) for words “private roads; roads or streets” by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108), ss.128(1), 156(1), Sch. 9 para. 9(a)
F2Word repealed (S.) by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108), ss. 128(1), 156, Sch. 9 para. 9(a), Sch. 10 para. 4(1), Sch. 11
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 25 repealed (E.W.) by Settled Land Act 1925 (c. 18), Sch. 5; extended by Settled Land Act 1890 (c. 69), s. 13 and (S.) by Improvement of Land Act 1899 (c. 46), s. 2, Sch. 1
Textual Amendments
F3Ss. 1(3), 2–24, 26–29, 31–64 repealed (E.W.) by Settled Land Act 1925 (c. 18), Sch. 5