Right to Buy Land to Further Sustainable Development (Applications, Written Requests, Ballots and Compensation) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. No. 21 of 2020).

These Regulations make provision in connection with procedures related to the right to buy land to further sustainable development under Part 5 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016. Under that Part, community bodies may buy "eligible" land for sustainable development purposes. “Land”— (a) includes— (i) bridges and other structures built on or over land, (ii) inland waters, (iii) canals, (iv) the foreshore, being the land between the high and low water marks of ordinary spring tides, and (v) salmon fishing in inland waters or mineral rights which are owned separately from the land in respect of which they are eligible. The Regulations concern, among other things, the application required to be submitted by a Part 5 community body that wishes to apply to Ministers for consent to exercise a right to buy under section 54 of the 2016 Act, the written request that a Part 5 community body must send to a land owner or tenant under sections 56(3)(a) or (7)(a) of the 2016 Act respectively, a response from the land owner to a request, circumstances in which the land owner is taken to have not responded or not agreed to a request, dispute procedures.