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War Damage to Land (Scotland) Act 1939

War Damage to Land (Scotland) Act 1939 s 1

s 1 Relief from obligation to repair in case of war damage.

(1) Where war damage occurs to any land comprised in a disposition, or in a lease or in a heritable security, nothing in such disposition, lease or heritable security, or in any deed or instrument bearing reference thereto or in the common law, shall be construed as requiring any party having a right or interest under such disposition or the lessor or lessee or the debtor in the heritable security to make good the war damage. (2) A condition contained in a disposition or lease or in any deed or instrument bearing reference thereto that the disposition or lease or any such deed or instrument shall be void or voidable whenever there shall not be buildings of a certain value or description on the land shall not be operative where the failure to have such buildings on the land is due to war damage. (3) The provisions of any enactment relating to the repair or maintenance of any building shall not extend to the making good of war damage.

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