Agricultural tenancies, small landholdings and land management tenancy proposals - strategic environmental assessment: consultation analysis

Annex 2. Glossary

Agricultural holding - The aggregate of the agricultural land which comprises a lease.

Agricultural lease - A letting of land for a term of years, or lives of the tenant, or for lives and years, or from year to year.

Landlord - any person for the time being entitled to receive the rents and profits or take possession of an agricultural holding, and includes the executor, assignee, legatee, disponee, guardian, curator bonis, tutor, or permanent or interim trustee (within the meaning of the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985), of a landlord.

Land Management Tenancy - A proposed new model of lease to enable a wider range of activities on land that will promote both climate and nature objectives and model new ways of working with and on land. This will complement existing types of lease, not replace them.

Resumption clause - drafted in its widest terms, entitles the landlord to recover farm land from the agricultural holding for any non-agricultural purpose.

Schedule 5 of the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991 - This has three Parts: Part 1 lists improvements that need consent; Part 2 lists improvements that need notice; and, Part 3 lists improvements that need neither consent nor notice.

Small landholdings - Small landholdings are a form of tenanted land located across Scotland. There are approximately 59 small landholders in Scotland.

Tenant - The holder of land under a lease of an agricultural holding and includes the executor, assignee, legatee, disponee, guardian, curator bonis, tutor, or permanent or interim trustee (within the meaning of the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985), of a tenant

Tenant Farming Commissioner - The Tenant Farming Commissioner is responsible for promoting and encouraging good relations between landlords and tenants and has powers to publish codes of practice and to investigate alleged breaches of the codes.

Waygo - The effective date or termination date on a notice of intention to quit or a notice to quit of an agricultural leasing arrangement.