73 Feudal terms in enactments and documents: construction after abolition of feudal system

73  Feudal terms in enactments and documents: construction after abolition of feudal system

(1)     Where a term or expression, which before the appointed day would ordinarily, or in the context in which it is used, depend for its meaning on there being a feudal system of land tenure, requires to be construed, in relation to any period from that day onwards—

(a)     in an enactment (other than this Act) passed [before that day];

(b)     in an enactment contained in subordinate legislation made [before that day]; . . .

(c)     in a document executed [before that day][; . . .

(d)     in the Land Register of Scotland or in—

(i)     a land certificate;

(ii)     a charge certificate; or

(iii)     an office copy,

issued, whether or not before that day, under the Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979 (c 33), [or

(e)     in an

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