The Crofting Community Right to Buy (Procedure, Ballots and Forms) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021

Made: 19th January 2021

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 20th January 2021

Coming into force: 24th February 2021

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 73(5) and (11), 75(2), (4), (6), and (7), 82(1) and (2), 90(6) and 98(3) of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003[^f00001] and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation and commencement

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These Regulations may be cited as the Crofting Community Right to Buy (Procedure, Ballots and Forms) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021 and come into force on 24 February 2021.

Amendments to the Crofting Community Right to Buy (Procedure, Ballots and Forms) (Scotland) Regulations 2020

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• (1) The Crofting Community Right to Buy (Procedure, Ballots and Forms) (Scotland) Regulations 2020[^f00002] are amended as follows.

• (2) In regulations 19 and 20, for “1 December 2020”, in each place that it occurs, substitute “24 February 2021”.

Signed

BEN MACPHERSON — A member of the Scottish Government — 19th January 2021

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations are made in exercise of the powers in sections 73(5) and (11), 75(2), (4), (6), and (7), 82(1) and (2), 90(6) and 98(3) of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003.

Regulation 2 amends dates contained in saving and transitional provisions in theCrofting Community Right to Buy (Procedure, Ballots and Forms) (Scotland) Regulations 2020, to align those dates with the coming into force date for those Regulations.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2003 asp 2. Section 73(5) was amended by the Crofting Reform etc. (Scotland) Act 2007 (2007 asp 7) (“the 2007 Act”), schedule 1, paragraph 5(3) and the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 (2015 asp 6) (“the 2015 Act”), section 64(2). Section 75(6) and (7) was added by the 2015 Act, section 66 (3). Section 82(2) was amended by the 2003 Act, schedule 1, paragraph 5(8). Section 98(1) of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 contains definitions of ‘Ministers’ and ‘prescribed’ relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made.

[^f00002]: S.S.I. 2020/451.