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Displaying 646 - 650 of 782Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2003 (S.S.I. No. 503 of 2003).
This Order makes modifications of the following enactments which appear to be necessary or expedient in consequence of the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003: Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1845; Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc (Scotland) Act 2000; Housing (Forms) (Scotland) Regulations 1974; Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) (Scotland) Regulations 1984; Compulsory Purchase by Public Authorities (Inquiries Procedure) (Scotland) Rules 1998.
Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (Conservation Bodies) Order 2003 (S.S.I. No. 453 of 2003).
This Order prescribes various bodies in favour of whom it is competent to create a conservation burden under section 38(1) of the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 and preserve rights to enforce real burdens by registration of a notice under section 27 or 27A of the Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000.
Lands Tribunal for Scotland Rules 2003 (S.S.I. No. 452 of 2003).
Part I of these Rules deals with applications to the Lands Tribunal for Scotland under the Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 and the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003. Schedule 1 contains a list of application forms under these two Acts and these forms, among others, are set out in Schedule 2. The applications available under Part I are for reallotment of a feudal burden, for the discharge, variation or renewal of a title condition, the preservation of a community burden or the preservation of a development management scheme.
Compulsory Purchase of Land (Scotland) Regulations 2003 (S.S.I. 446 of 2003).
The Regulations prescribe the forms in which compulsory purchase orders and general vesting declarations shall be made and also the notices, advertisements and other documents required in connection therewith. They update the various statutory references to those currently in force and omit obsolete material relating to the repealed Community Land Act 1975.
Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Order 1992 (S.I. 223 (S. 17) of 1992).
This Order consolidates with amendments the permitted development provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Amendment) (Scotland) Order 1981 and subsequent amending instruments. The main purpose of this Order is to permit certain classes of development without express planning permission being granted under the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972. Schedule 1 to the Order sets out these classes of development in detail, subject to articles 3 to 7.