Source: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2000/5/part/4
Timestamp: 2019-10-18 03:03:08
Document Index: 246977594

Matched Legal Cases: ['ART 4', 'ART 4', 'art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art 4']

Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000, PART 4 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 18 October 2019. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
PART 4 S REAL BURDENS
Extinction of superior’s rightsS
17 Extinction of superior’s rightsS
(1)Subject to sections 18 [F1to 18C], 19, 20, F2. . . 27, [F327A,] 28 [F428A,] and 60 of this Act [F5and to sections 52 to 56 (which make provision as to common schemes, facility burdens and service burdens) and 63 (which makes provision as to manager burdens) of the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9)]—
(b)any other real burden shall, on and after that day, not be enforceable by a former superior [F6other than in that person's capacity as owner of land or as holder of a conservation burden, health care burden or economic development burden].
[F7(aa)a right of enforcement held by virtue of any of the provisions mentioned in subsection (1) above;]
F1Words in s. 17(1) inserted (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 129(3), sch. 13 para. 2(a)(i) (with ss. 119, 121)
F2Words in s. 17(1) repealed (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 128(2), 129(5)(b)(c), sch. 15 (with ss. 119, 121)
F3Words in s. 17(1) inserted (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 129(3), sch. 13 para. 2(a)(ii) (with ss. 119, 121)
F4Words in s. 17(1) inserted (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 129(3), sch. 13 para. 2(a)(iii) (with ss. 119, 121)
F5Words in s. 17(1) inserted (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 129(3), sch. 13 para. 2(a)(iv) (with ss. 119, 121)
F6Words in s. 17(1)(b) added (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 129(3), sch. 13 para. 2(a) (with ss. 119, 121)
F7S. 17(3)(aa) inserted (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 129(3), sch. 13 para. 2(b) (with ss. 119, 121)
C1S. 17(1) excluded (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 63(9), 129(3) (with ss. 119, 121)
Reallotment etc.S
18 Reallotment of real burden by nomination of new dominant tenementS
(1)[F8Without prejudice to sections 18A to 18C of this Act,] where—
(a)a feudal estate of dominium utile of land is subject to a real burden enforceable by a superior of the feu or which would be so enforceable were the person in question to complete title to the dominium directum; and
(b)at least one of the conditions set out in subsection (7) below is met, the superior may, before the appointed day, prospectively nominate other land (being land of which he has right to the sole dominium utile or sole allodial ownership), or any part of that other land, as a dominant tenement by duly executing and registering a notice in, or as nearly as may be in, the form contained in schedule 5 to this Act.
(b)describe, sufficiently to enable identification by reference to the Ordnance Map, both the land the dominium utile of which is subject to the real burden (or any part of that land) and the land (or part) nominated;
(c)specify which of the conditions set out in subsection (7) below is (or are) met;
(e)set out the terms of any counter-obligation to the real burden if it is a counter— obligation enforceable against the superior.
(3)For the purposes of subsection (1) above a notice is duly registered only when registered against both tenements described in pursuance of subsection (2)(b) above.
(4)Before submitting any notice for registration under this section, the superior shall swear or affirm before a notary public that to the best of the knowledge and belief of the superior all the information contained in the notice is true.
(5)For the purposes of subsection (4) above, if the superior is—
and any reference in that subsection to a superior shall be construed accordingly.
(6)[F9Subject to subsection (6A) below,] if subsections (1) to (5) above are complied with and immediately before the appointed day the real burden is still enforceable by the superior (or by his successor) or would be so enforceable, or still so enforceable, were the person in question to complete title to the dominium directum then, on that day—
[F10(6A)Such compliance as is mentioned in subsection (6) above shall not be effective to preserve any right to enforce a manager burden (“manager burden” being construed in accordance with section 63(1) of the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9)).]
(a)that the land which by virtue of this section would become the dominant tenement has on it a permanent building which is in use wholly or mainly as a place of human—
(i)habitation; or
and that building is, at some point, within one hundred metres (measuring along a horizontal plane) of the land which would be the servient tenement;
(b)that the real burden comprises—
(i)a right [F11(other than any sporting rights, as defined by section 65A(9) of this Act)] to enter, or otherwise make use of, the servient tenement; or
(ii)a right of pre-emption or of redemption; or
(c)that the land which by virtue of this section would become the dominant tenement comprises—
(i)minerals; or
and it is apparent from the terms of the real burden that it was created for the benefit of such land.
(8)This section is subject to sections 41 and 42 of this Act.
F8Words in s. 18(1) inserted (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 129(3), sch. 13 para. 3(a) (with ss. 119, 121)
F9Words in s. 18(6) inserted (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 129(3), sch. 13 para. 3(b) (with ss. 119, 121)
F10S. 18(6A) inserted (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 128(3), sch. 13 para. 3(c)) (with ss. 119, 121)
F11Words in s. 18(7)(b)(i) inserted (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 129(3), sch. 13 para. 3(d) (with ss. 119, 121)
C2S. 18(4) modified (15.8.2003) by The Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 4), ss. 14(1)(2)(b), 21(2); S.S.I. 2003/384, art. 2(a)
[F1218APersonal pre-emption burdens and personal redemption burdensS
the burden; but unless the deed is one to which section [F13101 of the Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5)] (circumstances where unnecessary to deduce title) applies, it shall be necessary, in the deed, to deduce title to the burden through the midcouples linking the holder to the person who had the last completed title.
F12Ss. 18A-18C inserted (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(2), 129(3) (with ss. 119, 121)
F13Words in s. 18A(8)(b) substituted (8.12.2014) by Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5), ss. 122, 123, Sch. 5 para. 39(3) (with s. 121, Sch. 4 paras. 13, 16); S.S.I. 2014/127, art. 2
18BConversion into economic development burdenS
18CConversion into health care burdenS
(6)This section is subject to sections 41 and 42 of this Act.]
(1)Where but for paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 18 of this Act a superior could proceed under that subsection prospectively to nominate land (in this section referred to as the “prospective dominant tenement”) he may, provided that he has first, in pursuance of section 19 of this Act, attempted to reach agreement as respects the real burden in question with the person who has right to the feu, apply to the Lands Tribunal for an order under subsection (7) of this section; but such an application is competent only if made F14. . . before the appointed day.
duly execute and register a notice in, or as nearly as may be in, the form contained in schedule 7 to this Act; F15. . . .
(a)the Lands Tribunal is satisfied that, were the real burden to be extinguished, there would be [F16material detriment to the value or enjoyment of the applicant’s ownership (taking him to have ownership)] of the dominant tenement, the Tribunal may order that, subject to subsection (9) of this section—
(ii)the dominant tenement for the transitional period shall, after that period, continue to be the dominant tenement and the servient tenement for the transitional period shall, after that period, continue to be the servient tenement;[F17 or
(b)F18. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(b)F19. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(c)F19. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F14Words in s. 20(1) repealed (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 129(3), sch. 13 para. 4(a) (with ss. 119, 121)
F15Words in s. 20(3) omitted (22.10.2003) by The Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2003 (S.S.I. 2003/503), art. 2, sch. 1 para. 4(a)
F16Words in s. 20(7)(a) substituted (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 129(3), sch. 13 para. 4(b)(i) (with ss. 119, 121)
F17S. 20(7)(b) and preceding word inserted (22.10.2003) by The Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2003 (S.S.I. 2003/503), art. 2, sch. 1 para. 4(b)
F18S. 20(7)(b) and preceding word repealed (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 129(3), sch. 13 para. 4(b)(ii), (with ss. 119, 121)
F19s. 20(8)(b)(c) repealed (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 128(2), 129(5)(b)(c), sch. 15, (with ss. 119, 121)
22 Amendment of Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1992S
In section 11 (proceedings in relation to which there is no appeal from the decision of the Lands Tribunal) of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1992 (c.53), in subsection (2)—
(a)the words after “in relation to” shall be paragraph (a); and
(b)after that paragraph there shall be inserted “; or
(b)proceedings under section 20 of the Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5) (reallotment of real burden)”.
F20S. 23 repealed (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 128(2), 129(5)(b)(c), sch. 15 (with ss. 119, 121)
24 Interest to enforce real burdenS
Sections 18 to 20 F21. . . of this Act are without prejudice to any requirement that a dominant proprietor have an interest to enforce a real burden (and such interest shall not be presumed).
F21Words in s. 24 repealed (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 128(2), 129(5)(b)(c), sch. 15 (with ss. 119, 121)
25 Counter-obligations on reallotmentS
Where a real burden is reallotted under section 18, 19 [F22or 20] of this Act [F23or under section 56 or 63 of the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9) (which make provision, respectively, as to facility burdens and service burdens and as to manager burdens)], the right to enforce the burden shall be subject to any counter-obligation (modified as the case may be by the agreement or by the order of the Lands Tribunal) enforceable against the superior immediately before [F24reallotment is effected].
F22Words in s. 25 substituted (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 129(3), sch. 13 para. 5(a) (with ss. 119, 121)
F23Words in s. 25 inserted (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 129(3), sch. 13 para. 5(b) (with ss. 119, 121)
F24Words in s. 25 substituted (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 129(3), sch. 13 para. 5(c) (with ss. 119, 121)
Conservation burdensS
26 Conservation bodiesS
F25S. 26 repealed (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 128(2), 129(5)(b)(c), sch. 15 (with ss. 119, 121)
27 Notice preserving right to enforce conservation burdenS
(1)Where a conservation body has, or the Scottish Ministers have, the right as superior to enforce a real burden of the class described in subsection (2) below or would have that right were it or they to complete title to the dominium directum, it or they may, before the appointed day, preserve for the benefit of the public the right to enforce the burden in question after that day by executing and registering against the dominium utile of the land subject to the burden a notice in, or as nearly as may be in, the form contained in schedule 8 to this Act; and [F26, without prejudice to section 27A(1) of this Act,] any burden as respects which such a right is so preserved shall, on and after the appointed day, be known as a “conservation burden”.
(2)The class is those real burdens which are enforceable against a feudal estate of dominium utile of land for the purpose of preserving, or protecting—
(a)the architectural or historical characteristics of the land; or
(b)any other special characteristics of the land (including, without prejudice to the generality of this paragraph, a special characteristic derived from the flora, fauna or general appearance of the land).
(a)state that the superior is a conservation body by virtue of section [F2738 of the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9) (which makes provision generally as respects conservation burdens)] or that the superior is the Scottish Ministers;
(b)set out the title of the superior;
(c)describe, sufficiently to enable identification by reference to the Ordnance Map, the land subject to the real burden (or any part of that land);
(e)set out the terms of any counter-obligation to the real burden if it is a counter-obligation enforceable against the superior.
(4)This section is subject to sections 41 and 42 of this Act.
F26Words in s. 27(1) inserted (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 129(3), sch. 13 para. 6(a) (with ss. 119, 121)
F27Words in s. 27(3)(a) substituted (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 129(3), sch. 13 para. 6(b) (with ss. 119, 121)
[F2827ANomination of conservation body or Scottish Ministers to have title to enforce conservation burdenS
(4)This section is subject to sections 41 and 42 of this Act except that, in the application of subsection (1)(i) of section 42 for the purposes of this subsection, such discharge as is mentioned in that subsection shall be taken to require the consent of the nominated person.]
F28S. 27A inserted (1.11.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(3), 129(3) (with ss. 119, 121); S.S.I. 2003/455, art. 2(a)
28 Enforcement of conservation burdenS
(1)F29. . . If a notice has been executed and registered in accordance with section 27 of this Act and, immediately before the appointed day, the burden to which the notice relates is still enforceable by the conservation body or the Scottish Ministers as superior or would be so enforceable, or still so enforceable, were the body in question or they to complete title to the dominium directum then, on and after the appointed day, the conservation body or as the case may be the Scottish Ministers shall—
(b)be presumed to have an interest to enforce that burden.
(2)The references in subsection (1) above to—
(i)any conservation body which is; or
its successor as superior;
(b)the Scottish Ministers include references to a conservation body which is their successor as superior.
F29Words in s. 28 repealed (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 128(2), 129(5)(b)(c), sch. 15 (with ss. 119, 121)
[F3028AEffect of section 27A nominationS
F30S. 28A inserted (1.11.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(4), 129(3) (with ss. 119, 121); S.S.I. 2003/455, art. 2(a)
29 Assignation of right to conservation burdenS
F31Ss. 29-32 repealed (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 128(2), 129(5)(b)(c), sch. 15 (with ss. 119, 121)
30 Deduction of title for conservation burdenS
F32Ss. 29-32 repealed (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 128(2), 129(5)(b)(c), sch. 15 (with ss. 119, 121)
F33Ss. 29-32 repealed (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 128(2), 129(5)(b)(c), sch. 15 (with ss. 119, 121)
32 No standard security over conservation burdenS
F34Ss. 29-32 repealed (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 128(2), 129(5)(b)(c), sch. 15 (with ss. 119, 121)
33 Notice reserving right to claim compensation where land subject to development value burdenS
(a)before the appointed day, land was feued subject to a real burden enforceable by a superior (or so enforceable if the person in question were to complete title to the dominium directum) which reserved for the superior the benefit (whether wholly or in part) of any development value of the land (such a real burden being referred to in this Part of this Act as a (“development value burden”; and
(i)the consideration paid, or payable, under the grant in feu was significantly lower than it would have been had the feu not been subject to the real burden; or
(ii)no consideration was paid, or payable, under the grant in feu,
the superior may, before that day, reserve the right to claim (in accordance with section 35 of this Act) compensation by executing and registering against the dominium utile of the land subject to the burden a notice in, or as nearly as may be in, the form contained in schedule 9 to this Act.
(b)describe, sufficiently to enable identification by reference to the Ordnance Map, the land the dominium utile of which is subject to the development value burden;
(c)set out the terms of the burden;
(d)state that the burden reserves development value and set out any information relevant to that statement;
(e)set out, to the best of the superior’s knowledge and belief, the amount by which the consideration was reduced because of the imposition of the burden; and
(f)the superior reserves the right to claim compensation in accordance with section 35 of this Act.
(3)Before submitting any notice for registration under this section, the superior shall swear or affirm before a notary public that to the best of the knowledge and belief of the superior all the information contained in the notice is true.
(4)For the purposes of subsection (3) above, if the superior is—
(5)In this Part of this Act, “development value” (except in the expression “development value burden”) means any significant increase in the value of the land arising as a result of the land becoming free to be used, or dealt with, in some way not permitted under the grant in feu.
(6)This section is subject to sections 41 and 42 of this Act.
34 Transmissibility of right to claim compensation[j074.doc]S
A right to claim compensation reserved in accordance with section 33 of this Act is transmissible.
35 Claiming compensationS
(1)Where the conditions mentioned in subsection (2) below are satisfied, any person who has, by or by virtue of a notice executed and registered in accordance with section 33 of this Act, a reserved right to claim compensation shall be entitled, subject to any order under section 44(2) of this Act, to compensation from the person who is the owner.
(a)the real burden set out in the notice was, immediately before the appointed day, enforceable by the superior or would have been so enforceable immediately before that day had the person in question completed title to the dominium directum;
(b)on that day the burden, or as the case may be any right (or right on completion of title) of the superior to enforce the burden, was extinguished, or rendered unenforceable, by section 17(1) of this Act; and
(c)at any time—
(i)during the period of five years ending immediately before the appointed day, there was a breach of the burden; or
(ii)during the period of twenty years beginning with the appointed day, there was an occurrence, which, but for the burden becoming extinct, or unenforceable, as mentioned in paragraph (b) above, would have been a breach of the burden.
(3)Where a person is entitled, by virtue of subsection (1) above, to compensation, he shall make any claim for such compensation by notice in writing duly served on the owner; and any such notice shall specify, in accordance with section 37 of this Act, the amount of compensation claimed.
(4)Where, in relation to a claim made under subsection (3) above, the condition mentioned in—
(a)sub-paragraph (i) of subsection (2)(c) above applies, any such claim may not be made more than three years after the appointed day;
(b)sub-paragraph (ii) of subsection (2)(c) above applies, any such claim may not be made more than three years after the date of the occurrence.
(5)For the purposes of this section, if a breach, or occurrence, such as is mentioned in subsection (2)(c) above is continuing, the breach or, as the case may be, occurrence shall be taken to occur when it first happens.
(6)The reference in subsection (3) above to a notice being duly served shall be construed in accordance with section 36 of this Act.
36 Service under section 35(3)S
(1)Due service under section 35(3) of this Act is effected by delivering the notice in question to the owner or by sending it by registered post, or the recorded delivery service, addressed to him at an appropriate place.
(2)An acknowledgement, signed by the owner, which conforms to Form A of schedule 10 to this Act, or as the case may be a certificate which conforms to Form B of that schedule and is accompanied by the postal receipt, shall be sufficient evidence of such due service; and if the notice in question is, under subsection (1) above, sent by post but is returned to the person who is entitled to compensation with an intimation that it could not be delivered, the notice may be delivered or sent by post, with that intimation, to the Extractor of the Court of Session, the delivery or sending to the Extractor being taken to be equivalent to the service of that notice on the owner.
(3)For the purposes of subsection (2) above, an acknowledgement of receipt by the Extractor on a copy of that notice shall be sufficient evidence of its receipt by him.
(4)The date on which notice under section 35(3) of this Act is served on an owner is the date of delivery, or as the case may be of posting, in compliance with subsection (1) or (2) above.
(5)A reference in this section to an “appropriate place” is, for any owner, to be construed as a reference to—
(a)his place of residence;
(b)his place of business; or
(c)a postal address which he ordinarily uses,
or, if none of those is known at the time of delivery or posting, as a reference to whatever place is at that time his most recently known place of residence or place of business or postal address which he ordinarily used.
37 Amount of compensationS
(1)The amount of any compensation payable on a claim made under section 35(3) of this Act shall, subject to subsections (2) and (3) below, be such sum as represents, at the time of the breach or occurrence in question, any development value which would have accrued to the owner had the burden been modified to the extent necessary to permit the land to be used, or dealt with, in the way that constituted the breach or, as the case may be, occurrence on which the claim is based.
(2)The amount payable as compensation (or, where more than one claim is made in relation to the same development value burden, the total compensation payable) under subsection (1) above shall not exceed such sum as will make up for any effect which the burden produced, at the time when it was imposed, in reducing the consideration then paid or made payable for the feu.
(3)In assessing for the purposes of subsection (1) above an amount of compensation payable—
(a)any entitlement of the claimant to recover any part of the development value of the land subject to the development value burden shall be taken into account; and
(b)a claimant to whom the reserved right was assigned or otherwise transferred shall be entitled to no greater sum than the former superior would have been had there been no such assignation or transfer.
(4)The reference in subsection (1) above to a burden shall, in relation to an occurrence, be construed as a reference to the burden which would have been breached but for its becoming, by section 17(1) of this Act, extinct or unenforceable.
38 Duty to disclose identity of ownerS
Where a person (“the claimant”) purports duly to serve notice under section 35(3) of this Act and the person on whom it is served, being a person who had right, before the time of the breach (or, as the case may be, occurrence) founded on by the claimant, to the dominium utile (or the ownership) of the land, is not the owner, that person shall forthwith disclose to the claimant—
(a)the identity and address of the owner; or
(b)(if he cannot do that) such other information as he has that might enable the claimant to discover the identity and address;
and the notice shall refer to that requirement for disclosure.
39 The expression “owner” for purposes of sections 35 to 38S
(1)In sections 35 to 38 of this Act, “owner” means the person who, at the time of the breach or, as the case may be, occurrence, mentioned in section 35(2)(c) of this Act, has right to—
(a)the dominium utile; or
(b)the ownership,
of the land which, immediately before the appointed day, was subject to the development value burden, whether or not he has completed title; and if more than one person comes within that description, then the owner is the person who has most recently acquired such right.
(2)Where the land in question is held by two or more such owners as common property, they shall be severally liable to make any compensatory payment (but as between, or as the case may be among, themselves they shall be liable in the proportions in which they hold the land).
40 Assignation, discharge, or restriction, of reserved right to claim compensationS
A reserved right to claim, in accordance with section 35 of this Act, compensation may be—
(a)assigned, whether wholly or to such extent (expressed as a percentage of each claim which may come to be made) as may be specified in the assignation; or
(b)discharged or restricted,
by execution and registration of an assignation, or as the case may be a discharge, or restriction, in the form, or as nearly as may be in the form, contained in schedule 11 to this Act.
41 Notices: pre-registration requirements etc.S
(1)This section applies in relation to any notice which is to be submitted for registration under this Act.
42 Further provision as respects sections 18 to 20, 27 and 33S
(a)a notice relating to a real burden has been registered under section 18, [F3518A, 18B, 18C,] 20, 27 [F36, 27A] or 33 of this Act; or
(b)an agreement relating to a real burden has been registered under section 19 of this Act,
against the dominium utile of any land which is subject to the burden, it shall not be competent to register under any of those sections against that dominium utile another such notice or agreement relating to the same real burden; but nothing in this subsection shall prevent registration where—
(i)the discharge of any earlier such notice has been registered by the person who registered that notice (or by his successor); or
(ii)as the case may be, the discharge of any earlier such agreement has been registered, jointly, by the parties to that agreement (or by their successors).
(2)Where the dominium utile of any land comprises parts each held by a separate vassal, each part shall be taken to be a separate feudal estate of dominium utile.
(3)Where more than one feudal estate of dominium utile is subject to the same real burden enforceable by a superior of the feu, he shall, if he wishes to execute and register a notice under section 18, [F3518A, 18B, 18C,] 20, 27 [F36, 27A] or 33 of this Act against those feudal estates in respect of that real burden, require to do so against each separately.
(4)Where a feudal estate of dominium utile is subject to more than one real burden enforceable by a superior of the feu, he may if he wishes to—
(a)execute and register a notice under section 18, [F3518A, 18B, 18C,] 20, 27 [F36, 27A] or 33 of this Act against that feudal estate in respect of those real burdens, do so by a single notice; or
(b)enter into and register an agreement under section 19 of this Act against that feudal estate in respect of those real burdens, do so by a single agreement.
[F37(5)Nothing in this Part requires registration against land prospectively nominated as a dominant tenement but outwith Scotland.]
F35Words in s. 42(1)(a)(3)(4)(a) inserted (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 129(3), Sch. 13 para. 7(a)(i) (with ss. 119, 121)
F36Words in s. 42(1)(a)(3)(4)(a) inserted (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 129(3), Sch. 13 para. 7(a)(ii) (with ss. 119, 121)
F37S. 42(5) added (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 128(3), Sch. 13 para. 7(b) (with ss. 119, 121)
43 Notices and agreements under certain sections: extent of Keeper’s dutyS
(1)In relation to any notice submitted for registration under section 18, [F3818A, 18B, 18C,] 20, 27 [F39, 27A] or 33 of this Act, the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland shall not be required to determine whether the superior has complied with the terms of section 41(3) of this Act.
(a)section 18, [F3818A, 18B, 18C,] 19, 20, 27 [F39, 27A] or 33 of this Act, the Keeper shall not be required to determine whether, for the purposes of subsection (1) of the section in question, a real burden is enforceable by a superior;
[F40(bb)section 18B or 18C of this Act, the Keeper shall not be required to determine whether—
(ii)the statement made in pursuance of subsection (2)(e) of the section in question is correct;]
(a)for the purposes of section 18(6), [F4118A(5), 18B(3), 18C(3),] 19(5), 20(5) or (8)(a)(i), 28 [F42, 28A] or 60(1) of this Act, whether immediately before the appointed day a real burden is, or is still, enforceable, or by whom; or
F38Words in s. 43(1)(2)(a) inserted (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 129(3), Sch. 13 para. 8(a)(i) (with ss. 119, 121)
F39Words in s. 43(1)(2)(a) inserted (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 129(3), Sch. 13 para. 8(a)(ii) (with ss. 119, 121)
F40S. 43(2)(bb) inserted (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 128(3), Sch. 13 para. 8(b) (with ss. 119, 121)
F41Words in s. 43(3)(a) inserted (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 129(3), Sch. 13 para. 8(c)(i) (with ss. 119, 121)
F42Words in s. 43(3)(a) inserted (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 129(3), sch. 13 para. 8(c)(ii) (with ss. 119, 121)
44 Referral to Lands Tribunal of notice disputeS
(1)Any dispute arising in relation to a notice registered under this Act may be referred to the Lands Tribunal; and, in determining the dispute, the Tribunal may make such order as it thinks fit discharging or, to such extent as may be specified in the order, restricting the notice in question.
(2)Any dispute arising in relation to a claim made under section 35(3) of this Act may be referred to the Lands Tribunal; and, in determining the dispute, the Tribunal may make such order as it thinks fit (including an order fixing the amount of any compensation payable under the claim in question).
(3)In any referral under subsection (1) or (2) above, the burden of proving any disputed question of fact shall be on the person relying on the notice or, as the case may be, making the claim.
(4)An extract of any order made under subsection (1) or (2) above may be registered and the order shall take effect as respects third parties on such registration.
45 Circumstances where certain notices may be registered after appointed dayS
(a)a notice submitted, before the appointed day, for registration under this Act, or an agreement so submitted for registration under section 19 of this Act, is rejected by the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland; but
(b)a court or the Lands Tribunal then determines that the notice or agreement is registrable,
the notice or agreement may, if not registered before the appointed day, be registered—
(ii)before such date after the appointed day as the Scottish Ministers may by order prescribe,
and any notice or agreement registered under this subsection on or after the appointed day shall be treated as if it had been registered before that day.
(2)For the purposes of subsection (1) above, the application to the court, or to the Lands Tribunal, which has resulted in the determination shall require to have been made within such period as the Scottish Ministers may by order prescribe.
(3)In subsection (1)(b) above, “court” means any court having jurisdiction in questions of heritable right or title.
F4346 Duties of Keeper: amendments relating to the extinction of certain real burdensS
F43S. 46 repealed (8.12.2014) by Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5), ss. 122, 123, Sch. 5 para. 39(4) (with s. 121, Sch. 4 paras. 13, 16); S.S.I. 2014/127, art. 2
47 Extinction of counter-obligationS
48 No implication as to dominant tenement where real burden created in grant in feuS
Where a real burden is created (or has at any time been created) in a grant in feu, the superior having the dominium utile, or allodial ownership, of land (the (“superior’s land” in the vicinity of the land feued, no implication shall thereby arise that the superior’s land is a dominant tenement.
49 Interpretation of Part 4S
“conservation body” means a body prescribed [F44by order under section 38(4) of the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9)];
“conservation burden” shall be construed in accordance with [F45sections 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;
[F46“economic development burden” shall be construed in accordance with section 18B(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;
[F47“personal pre-emption burden” and “personal redemption burden” shall be construed in accordance with section 18A(5) of this Act]
“real burden”—
a right of pre-emption;
a right of redemption; or
provided that it is constituted as a real burden; but
does not include a pecuniary real burden [F49or 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.
F44S. 49: words in definition of "conservation body" substituted (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 129(3), sch. 13 para. 10(a) (with ss. 119, 121)
F45S. 49: words in definition of "conservation burden" substituted (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 129(3), sch. 13 para. 10(b) (with ss. 119, 121)
F46S. 49: definitions inserted (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 129(3), sch. 13 para. 10(c) (with ss. 119, 121)
F47S. 49: definition inserted (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 129(3), sch. 13 para. 10(d) (with ss. 119, 121)
F48S. 49: words in definition of "real burden" repealed (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 128(2), 129(5)(b)(c), sch. 15 (with ss. 119, 121)
F49S. 49: words in definition of "real burden" inserted (4.4.2003) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 114(6), 129(3), sch. 13 para. 10(e) (with ss. 119, 121)