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Enforced by: Takeover Panel
Status: In Force
Penalty ceiling: Prosecution 2 of 11 obligations carry an unlimited fine. 9 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Any Person2 Occupier1 Applicant1

Plus 7 duties on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.

Other Acts binding the same actors

If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.

Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts

Human Medicines Regulations 2012 184 duties

Merchant Shipping Act 1995 144 duties

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 104 duties

Communications Act 2003 92 duties

Road Traffic Act 1988 92 duties

Occupier — also bound by 235 other Acts

The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 47 duties

Avian Influenza and Influenza of Avian Origin in Mammals (England) (No. 2) Order 2006 46 duties

The Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations 1995 34 duties

Highways Act 1980 23 duties

Nitrate Pollution Prevention Regulations 2015 19 duties

Applicant — also bound by 307 other Acts

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 46 duties

Human Medicines Regulations 2012 42 duties

The Land Registration Rules 2003 25 duties

Regulation (EU) No 1178/2011 (Aircrew) 20 duties

Value Added Tax Regulations 1995 18 duties

What it requires

Sections creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

s.003 Compensation for constituting holding outwith crofting counties as croft on application of tenant Regulated

Pay compensation to the landowner when creating a new croftApplicant

s.017 Acquisition, possession or use of proceeds of drug trafficking: Scotland. Prosecution

Acquire, possess or use proceeds of drug traffickingAny Person

Unlimited fine

s.019 Offences in connection with laundering money from drug trafficking: Scotland. Prosecution

Fail to disclose drug money laundering suspicionAny Person

Unlimited fine

133 other provisions — procedural and definitional

s.001 Offences to which this Part applies.

s.002 Jurisdiction in respect of Group A offences.

s.002 Ministers' power to modify functions of Commission

s.002 Annual report

s.002 Duty to produce plan

s.002 Status of plan

s.003 Questions immaterial to jurisdiction in the case of certain offences.

s.003 New crofts

s.003 Registration of new crofts

s.003 Appeal against assessment under section 3B

s.003 Registered crofts

s.004 Rules for determining certain jurisdictional questions relating to the location of events.

s.004 Exchange of crofts or parts of crofts

s.004 Enlargement of crofts

s.005 Conspiracy, attempt and incitement.

s.005 Complaint as respects breach of the statutory conditions

s.005 Crofters: residency duty

s.005 Termination of tenancy for misuse or neglect

s.005 Crofters: duty to cultivate and maintain

s.006 Relevance of external law.

s.007 Confiscation orders.

s.008 Postponed determinations.

s.009 Assumptions about proceeds of drug trafficking.

s.010 Provision of information.

s.011 Variation of confiscation orders.

s.012 Revised assessment of proceeds of drug trafficking.

s.013 Availability of powers and satisfaction of orders.

s.014 Defendant who has died or absconded.

s.015 Compensation.

s.016 Acquisition, possession or use of proceeds of drug trafficking.

s.018 Offences in connection with laundering money from drug trafficking.

s.019 Schemes for development

s.019 Meaning of “owner-occupier crofter”

s.019 Duties of owner-occupier crofters

s.019 Division of owner-occupied crofts

s.020 Prosecution by order of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise.

s.021 Enforcement of certain orders.

s.021 Reversion of resumed land

s.021 Commission consent for absence from croft

s.021 Extension of consent for absence

s.021 Variation of condition in consent for absence

s.022 Enforcement of Northern Ireland orders: drug trafficking.

s.023 Transfer of certain enforcement powers to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise.

s.024 Miscellaneous amendments.

s.024 Applications to decroft by owner-occupier crofters

s.024 Commission's powers in relation to applications under section 24A

s.024 Application of section 25 in relation to decrofting directions

s.024 Effect of decrofting direction

s.025 Appeal against order forfeiting drug trafficking cash.

s.026 Disclosure of information

s.026 Commission's duty to investigate suspected breach of duty

s.026 Enforcement of duties of crofters and owner-occupier crofters: general

s.026 Notice of suspected breach of duty

s.026 Undertakings: general

s.026 Circumstances where the Commission may not take action under section 26H or 26J

s.026 Commission duty to take action under section 26H or 26J

s.026 Division of croft before taking action

s.026 Crofters: tenancy termination procedure

s.026 Owner-occupier crofters: letting procedure

s.026 Appeals

s.027 Confiscation orders.

s.028 Postponed determinations.

s.029 Assisting another to retain the benefit of criminal conduct.

s.029 Letting of owner-occupied crofts

s.029 Status of tenant under a short lease

s.030 Acquisition, possession or use of proceeds of criminal conduct.

s.031 Concealing or transferring proceeds of criminal conduct.

s.032 Tipping-off.

s.033 Application to Scotland of sections 93A to 93D of 1988 Act.

s.034 Enforcement of Northern Ireland orders: proceeds of criminal conduct.

s.035 Prosecution by order of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise.

s.036 Confiscation orders.

s.037 Revised assessments.

s.038 Statements, etc. relevant to making confiscation orders.

s.038 Appeal to Land Court: special provision as respects reorganisation schemes

s.039 Provision of information.

s.040 Variation of confiscation orders.

s.040 Annual notices

s.041 Availability of powers and satisfaction of orders.

s.042 Defendant who has died or absconded.

s.043 Compensation.

s.044 Realisable property.

s.045 Enforcement.

s.046 Enforcement of orders outside Northern Ireland.

s.046 Regulations concerning loans

s.047 Offences relating to proceeds of terrorist-related activities.

s.048 Failure to disclose knowledge or suspicion relating to proceeds of terrorist-related activities.

s.049 Financial assistance for terrorism.

s.049 AGrazings committees: duty to report

s.050 Investigation of terrorist activities.

s.050 Joint forestry ventures etc.

s.050 Use of common grazing for other purposes

s.051 Failure to disclose knowledge or suspicion of financial assistance for terrorism.

s.051 New common grazing

s.051 Registration of new common grazings

s.052 The offence.

s.052 Appeal to Land Court: general

s.053 Defences.

s.053 Extent of boundaries

s.053 Access to croft

s.054 Securities to which Part V applies.

s.055 “Dealing” in securities.

s.055 Public notification

s.056 “Inside information”, etc.

s.057 “Insiders”.

s.058 Information “made public”.

s.058 Obtaining Commission approval or consent

s.058 Variation of conditions on approval or consent

s.059 “Professional intermediary”.

s.059 Equal opportunities

s.060 Other interpretation provisions.

s.061 Penalties and prosecution.

s.061 Summary proceedings: venue and time limit for proceedings

s.062 Territorial scope of offence of insider dealing.

s.063 Limits on section 52.

s.064 Orders.

s.065 Fixing of fines.

s.066 Powers of courts to deal with offenders.

s.067 Penalty for causing death by dangerous driving or by careless driving.

s.068 Appeals in Scotland against lenient disposals, etc.

s.069 Supervised release of certain young offenders in Scotland.

s.070 Penalties under implementation regulations.

s.071 Offences in connection with taxation etc. in the European Union .

s.072 Backing of warrants: safeguards.

s.073 Power of Secretary of State to make grants in relation to combating drug misuse.

s.074 Persons not eligible for early release.

s.075 Compassionate release of certain children and other persons in Scotland.

s.076 Life prisoners transferred to Scotland.

s.077 Power to extend certain offences to Crown servants and to exempt regulators etc.

s.078 Commencement etc.

s.079 Short title, extent etc.

s.para.189 Showing the derivation of the provisions of the Act

s.para.190 NOTE: The following abbreviations are used in this Table—

Schedules

8 of 88 shown

s.sch001 (1) The Scottish Ministers must, after consultation with the convener... Regulated