The Community Right to Buy (Definition of Excluded Land) (Scotland) Order 2009

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Community Right to Buy (Definition of Excluded Land) (Scotland) Order 2009 and shall come into force on 15th June 2009.

(2) In this Order, “the Act” means the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003.

Excluded land

2.—(1) There is designated as excluded land for the purposes of section 33 of the Act, the land comprising the settlements listed in the Schedule to this Order.

(2) Any land within the settlements of Armadale, Blackburn, Banknock, Hallglen or East Whitburn is not to be treated as being designated as excluded land for the purposes of section 33 of the Act if it is land that is the subject of an application made, by a community body under section 37 of the Act, before the date upon which this Order comes into force.

(3) The boundaries of the settlements specified in the Schedule to this Order are the boundaries which are delineated on the maps entitled “The Community Right to Buy (Definition of Excluded Land) (Scotland) Order 2009: Definitive Maps”(1).

(4) Foreshore which is adjacent to the settlements specified in the Schedule to this Order is excluded land for the purposes of section 33 of the Act.

Revocation

3.  The Community Right to Buy (Definition of Excluded Land) (Scotland) Order 2006(2) is revoked.

R CUNNINGHAM

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

2nd June 2009