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Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Scottish Ministers must appoint Chief Executive of Crofters Commission after consultation Crown / Minister / Government department
UK Act of Parliament
1993
Scotland
Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993
At a glance
Enforced by
What's here
8 compliance obligations
Who this Act binds
Plus 7 non-business duties on Crown ministers, regulators, local authorities or tribunals — shown collapsed under each section below.
What this Act requires
Sections that create concrete duties on businesses or carry penalties. Procedural and definitional sections are folded into the “Browse other sections” expander at the bottom of each group. Click any section title to read the source text on legislation.gov.uk.
Schedules
(1) The Commission must establish— (a) an audit committee; and...
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Crofters Commission must establish audit committee and other committees Statutory regulator
(1) The Commission may regulate— (a) their own procedure; and...
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Crofters Commission must keep records of meetings and decisions Statutory regulator
(1) A member of the Commission or any other person...
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Commission members must declare any personal interest in matters under discussion Statutory regulator
The Commission— (a) must have their principal office premises in...
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Crofting Commission must have principal office in crofting counties and follow Ministerial directions Statutory regulator
(1) The Commission must— (a) keep proper accounts and accounting...
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Crofting Commission must keep proper accounts and submit to Scottish Ministers Statutory regulator
The Commission must provide the Scottish Ministers with such information...
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Crofting Commission must provide information to Scottish Ministers as required Statutory regulator
The crofter shall be responsible for ensuring, where the croft...
- Ensure your subtenant follows crofting rules
Browse 80 other Schedules — structural / supplementary
(1) An individual is not guilty of insider dealing by...
(1) The quorum of the Commission is five members.
(1) The Commission may authorise— (a) any of their members;...
(1) The Commission may appoint a panel of suitable persons...
(1) The Scottish Ministers may— (a) pay grants;
(1) An individual is not guilty of insider dealing by...
(1) Where the Scottish Ministers consider it necessary or expedient...
An individual is not guilty of insider dealing by virtue...
For the purposes of paragraphs 2 and 3 market information...
(1) An individual is not guilty of insider dealing by...
An individual (“A”) is not guilty of insider dealing by...
An individual (“A”) is not guilty of insider dealing by...
For the purposes of paragraphs 6 and 7 “ trading...
(1) The Scottish Ministers may remove a member of the...
Transferable securities.
Options, futures, swaps, forward rate agreements and any other derivative...
Emission allowances consisting of any units recognised for compliance with...
Nothing in paragraph 11 above shall be held to allow,...
Part 2 of Schedule 2 to the RAO (“the RAO...
Terms used in this Schedule and in the RAO have...
References in paragraphs 12 and 13 to the RAO are...
Money-market instruments.
Units in collective investment undertakings.
The croft shall be kept in a fit state for...
Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph 3A above, in...
Options, futures, swaps, forward rate agreements and any other derivative...
Options, futures, swaps, forwards and any other derivative contracts relating...
In sub-paragraphs (b) and (c) of paragraph 5 above, “...
Options, futures, swaps, and any other derivative contract relating to...
Options, futures, swaps, forwards and any other derivative contracts relating...
Derivative instruments for the transfer of credit risk.
Financial contracts for differences.
(1) In section 17 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991...
Roads practicable for vehicles from the croft to the public...
All other improvements which, in the judgment of the Land...
Buildings or other structures erected under section 5 of the...
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Section 22 of the Act of 1991 (default in paying...
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(1) In section 15 of the Children and Young Persons...
Clearing the ground.
Planting trees, other than under section 48(4) of this Act....
Making piers or landing stages.
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The same section as is inserted in the Act of...
The same section as is inserted in the Act of...
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The same section as is inserted in the Act of...
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Confirmation and validity of reorganisation schemes
Confirmation and validity of reorganisation schemes
In section 50 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 (meaning...
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In section 82(2)(b) of the Companies Act 1989 (request for...
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In so far as anything done under an enactment repealed...
Where any period of time specified in an enactment repealed...
Any reference in any enactment or document, whether express or...
Nothing in this Act shall affect the enactments repealed by...
The repeal by this Act of section 22 of the...
Notwithstanding the repeal by this Act of section 3 of...
Browse 136 other sections — procedural / definitional / commencement
Offences to which this Part applies.
Jurisdiction in respect of Group A offences.
Ministers' power to modify functions of Commission
Annual report
Duty to produce plan
Status of plan
Questions immaterial to jurisdiction in the case of certain offences.
New crofts
Registration of new crofts
Compensation for constituting holding outwith crofting counties as croft on application of tenant
Appeal against assessment under section 3B
Registered crofts
Rules for determining certain jurisdictional questions relating to the location of events.
Exchange of crofts or parts of crofts
Enlargement of crofts
Conspiracy, attempt and incitement.
Complaint as respects breach of the statutory conditions
Crofters: residency duty
Termination of tenancy for misuse or neglect
Crofters: duty to cultivate and maintain
Relevance of external law.
Confiscation orders.
Postponed determinations.
Assumptions about proceeds of drug trafficking.
Provision of information.
Variation of confiscation orders.
Revised assessment of proceeds of drug trafficking.
Availability of powers and satisfaction of orders.
Defendant who has died or absconded.
Compensation.
Acquisition, possession or use of proceeds of drug trafficking.
Acquisition, possession or use of proceeds of drug trafficking: Scotland.
Offences in connection with laundering money from drug trafficking.
Offences in connection with laundering money from drug trafficking: Scotland.
Schemes for development
Meaning of “owner-occupier crofter”
Duties of owner-occupier crofters
Division of owner-occupied crofts
Prosecution by order of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise.
Enforcement of certain orders.
Reversion of resumed land
Commission consent for absence from croft
Extension of consent for absence
Variation of condition in consent for absence
Enforcement of Northern Ireland orders: drug trafficking.
Transfer of certain enforcement powers to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise.
Miscellaneous amendments.
Applications to decroft by owner-occupier crofters
Commission's powers in relation to applications under section 24A
Application of section 25 in relation to decrofting directions
Effect of decrofting direction
Appeal against order forfeiting drug trafficking cash.
Disclosure of information
Commission's duty to investigate suspected breach of duty
Enforcement of duties of crofters and owner-occupier crofters: general
Notice of suspected breach of duty
Undertakings: general
Circumstances where the Commission may not take action under section 26H or 26J
Commission duty to take action under section 26H or 26J
Division of croft before taking action
Crofters: tenancy termination procedure
Owner-occupier crofters: letting procedure
Appeals
Confiscation orders.
Postponed determinations.
Assisting another to retain the benefit of criminal conduct.
Letting of owner-occupied crofts
Status of tenant under a short lease
Acquisition, possession or use of proceeds of criminal conduct.
Concealing or transferring proceeds of criminal conduct.
Tipping-off.
Application to Scotland of sections 93A to 93D of 1988 Act.
Enforcement of Northern Ireland orders: proceeds of criminal conduct.
Prosecution by order of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise.
Confiscation orders.
Revised assessments.
Statements, etc. relevant to making confiscation orders.
Appeal to Land Court: special provision as respects reorganisation schemes
Provision of information.
Variation of confiscation orders.
Annual notices
Availability of powers and satisfaction of orders.
Defendant who has died or absconded.
Compensation.
Realisable property.
Enforcement.
Enforcement of orders outside Northern Ireland.
Regulations concerning loans
Offences relating to proceeds of terrorist-related activities.
Failure to disclose knowledge or suspicion relating to proceeds of terrorist-related activities.
Financial assistance for terrorism.
AGrazings committees: duty to report
Investigation of terrorist activities.
Joint forestry ventures etc.
Use of common grazing for other purposes
Failure to disclose knowledge or suspicion of financial assistance for terrorism.
New common grazing
Registration of new common grazings
The offence.
Appeal to Land Court: general
Defences.
Extent of boundaries
Access to croft
Securities to which Part V applies.
“Dealing” in securities.
Public notification
“Inside information”, etc.
“Insiders”.
Information “made public”.
Obtaining Commission approval or consent
Variation of conditions on approval or consent
“Professional intermediary”.
Equal opportunities
Other interpretation provisions.
Penalties and prosecution.
Summary proceedings: venue and time limit for proceedings
Territorial scope of offence of insider dealing.
Limits on section 52.
Orders.
Fixing of fines.
Powers of courts to deal with offenders.
Penalty for causing death by dangerous driving or by careless driving.
Appeals in Scotland against lenient disposals, etc.
Supervised release of certain young offenders in Scotland.
Penalties under implementation regulations.
Offences in connection with taxation etc. in the European Union .
Backing of warrants: safeguards.
Power of Secretary of State to make grants in relation to combating drug misuse.
Persons not eligible for early release.
Compassionate release of certain children and other persons in Scotland.
Life prisoners transferred to Scotland.
Power to extend certain offences to Crown servants and to exempt regulators etc.
Commencement etc.
Short title, extent etc.
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