The Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991 (1991 c. 55) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated enactments relating to agricultural holdings in Scotland.
Provisions Repealed enactments Section 88(2) of the act repealed 18 enactments and revoked 3 instruments, listed in parts I and II of schedule 13 to the act, respectively.
+Part I – RepealsCitationShort titleExtent of repeal1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6. c. 34Sheep Stocks Valuation (Scotland) Act 1937The whole act.9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 73Hill Farming Act 1946Sections 28 to 31.Second Schedule.11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 45Agriculture (Scotland) Act 1948Section 52.In section 54, the definitions of "deer", "occupier of an agricultural holding" and "woodlands".12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6. c. 75Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1949The whole act.14 & 15 Geo. 6. c. 18Livestock Rearing Act 1951In section 1(2)(b) the words "in paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of section 8 of the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1949".14 & 15 Geo. 6. c. 65Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951In section 24(b), the words from "for references" to "twenty-seven thereof".6 & 7 Eliz. 2. c. 71Agriculture Act 1958Section 3.Schedule 1.1963 c. 11Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1963Section 21.1964 c. 41Succession (Scotland) Act 1964In Schedule 2, paragraphs 19 to 23.1968 c. 34Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1968Part II.Schedules 4 and 5.1973 c. 65Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973Section 228(5).1976 c. 21Crofting Reform (Scotland) Act 1976Schedule 2, paragraph 25.1976 c. 55Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976Section 13 and 14.1980 c. 45Water (Scotland) Act 1980In Schedule 10, Part II, the entry relating to the 1949 Act.1983 c. 46Agricultural Holdings (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1983The whole act.1985 c. 73Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1985Section 32.1986 c. 5Agricultural Holdings Act 1986In schedule 14, paragraphs 25(8), 26(11) and 33(8).1986 c. 49Agriculture Act 1986In Schedule 2, paragraph 1, the definitions of "the 1886 Act", "the 1911 Act", "the 1949 Act" and "the 1955 Act".
+Part II – Revocations of Subordinate LegislationCitationTitleExtent of revocationSI 1950/1553Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Regulations 1950The whole order.SI 1978/798Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1949 (Variation of First Schedule) Order 1978The whole order.SI 1986/1823Hill Farming Act 1946 (Variation of Second Schedule) (Scotland) Order 1986The whole order.
Subsequent developments The act has been amended on numerous occasions, most substantially by the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 2003 and the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016, which introduced new forms of agricultural tenancy and made extensive consequential amendments and repeals to the act, and by the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2025, which made further amendments to the law on agricultural holdings. Various individual sections and schedules of the act have been repealed by this and other subsequent legislation, but the act as a whole remains in force.
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