HC Deb 08 March 1920 vol 126 c913W
Mr. WASON

asked the Secretary for Scotland if steps are being taken to force crofters to buy their crofts and threatened, if they do not do so, that they will be sold over their heads?

Mr. MUNRO

Cases have come under my notice in which small holdings held under the Statutory tenure of the Small Landholders Acts have been offered for sale. There is nothing in law to prevent such transactions. But the occupiers of such holdings are protected by the Landholders Acts, for the purchaser cannot enter into personal occupation of the holding unless he obtains an Order from the Land Court authorising resumption of the land for that purpose.