Crofting Acts

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The Crofting Acts are a series of laws in Scotland that established and protected the rights of small tenant farmers (crofters), particularly in the Highlands and Islands, by regulating land tenure and security of occupancy.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Scottish legislation
land reform law
administeredBy Crofting Commission
Scottish Government
aimsTo encourage sustainable use of marginal agricultural land
stabilise rural populations in the Highlands and Islands
appliesTo crofters
small tenant farmers
appliesToRegion Scottish Highlands
Scottish Islands NERFINISHED
concerns common grazings
crofting townships
heritable rights in crofts
country Scotland
created Crofting Commission
establishes legal framework for crofting communities
statutory smallholdings known as crofts
field agricultural law
land tenure
hasPart Crofting Acts self-linksurface differs
surface form: Crofters (Scotland) Act 1955

Crofting Acts self-linksurface differs
surface form: Crofters (Scotland) Act 1961

Crofting Acts self-linksurface differs
surface form: Crofters (Scotland) Act 1968

Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993
Crofting Acts self-linksurface differs
surface form: Crofters Holdings (Scotland) Act 1886

Crofting Reform (Scotland) Act 2010
Crofting Acts self-linksurface differs
surface form: Crofting Reform etc. Act 2007

Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016 provisions on crofting
Crofting Acts self-linksurface differs
surface form: Small Landholders (Scotland) Act 1911
historicalContext Highland land question
post-Clearances land reform
languageOfDocument English
Scots law terminology
legalSubject crofting
legalSystem Scots law (to a limited extent)
surface form: Scots law
predecessor Crofters Commission
protects crofters from arbitrary eviction
security of tenure for crofters and their families
purpose to protect the rights of crofters
to provide security of tenure
to regulate crofting tenure
to regulate rents and conditions of occupancy
regulates assignation of crofts
decrofting
division of crofts
landlord–tenant relations in crofting areas
rent of crofts
rights of succession to crofts
security of occupancy for crofters
subletting of crofts

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Highland Clearances relatedTo Crofting Acts
Crofting Acts hasPart Crofting Acts self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Crofters Holdings (Scotland) Act 1886
Crofting Acts hasPart Crofting Acts self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Small Landholders (Scotland) Act 1911
Crofting Acts hasPart Crofting Acts self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Crofters (Scotland) Act 1955
Crofting Acts hasPart Crofting Acts self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Crofters (Scotland) Act 1961
Crofting Acts hasPart Crofting Acts self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Crofters (Scotland) Act 1968
Crofting Acts hasPart Crofting Acts self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Crofting Reform etc. Act 2007