The Act
3.The Act makes provision to reform and rename the Crofters Commission and to modify their statutory functions. It establishes a new map-based Crofting Register that will be maintained by the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland, and which will be developed over time through regulatory trigger points that will require crofts, common grazings and land held runrig to be registered. The Act defines a category of owner-occupiers known as “owner-occupier crofters” and imposes duties on them and on tenant crofters in relation to residency, misuse and neglect of crofts. The Act also amends provisions in the Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993 (referred to in these Explanatory Notes as “the 1993 Act”) on decrofting, resumption, re-letting of vacant crofts, obtaining consent to certain regulatory matters, succession and appeals. A number of other minor and technical amendments to crofting law are made.