Views from a Solicitor on the Crofting Reform (Scotland) Act 2010: Presentation given by Brian Inkster of Inksters Solicitors to Crofting Law Conference held by The WS Society / Crofting Law Group in Fort William on 3 September 2010

1. Crofting Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 Views from a Solicitor: Brian Inkster

2. Part 1 Reorganisation of the Crofters Commission

3. Part 2 The Crofting Register

4. Registration

5. Persons responsible for applications for registration

6. Applications for registration

7. Acceptance of application for registration

8. Completion of registration

9. The registration schedule

10. Notification of first registration

11. Challenge to first registration & Appeals

12. Resumed and decrofted crofts

13. Rectification and Indemnity

14. First registration of common grazings

15. Registration of events affecting common grazings & applications for registration

16. Application of Act to common grazings

17. Offences

18. Lands held runrig

19. Part 3 - Duties of Crofters and Owner-Occupier Crofters

20. Crofters: residency duty

21. Crofters: duty not to misuse or neglect croft

22. Crofters: duty to cultivate and maintain

23. Duties of owner-occupier crofters

24. Division of owner-occupied crofts

25. Commission consent for absence from the croft

26. Annual Notices

27. Commission’s duty to investigate suspected breach of duty

28. Notice of suspected breach of duty

29. Undertakings

30. Commissions duty to take action

31. Appeals

32. Grazings committees: duties to report breaches of crofters’ and owner-occupier crofters’ duties etc.

33. Letting of owner-occupied crofts

34. Part 4 Further amendments of the 1993 Act

35. Limitations on crofter’s ability to nominate disponee

36. Extension of period during which sum is payable on disposal of croft land

37. Consideration of application to resume croft & Consideration of decrofting directions

38. Letting of vacant crofts

39. Application to decroft where action being taken to re-let vacant croft

40. Enlargement of crofts

41. Enlargement of common grazings

42. Commission’s approval and consent

43. Succession to crofts

44. Appeals

45. Part 5 General and Miscellaneous

46. Duty to Report to the Scottish Parliament

47. Pre-consolidation modifications of enactments relating to crofting

48. Brian Inkster inksters.com/croftinglaw