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New member for Scottish Land Court
15/10/2002
The Queen, on the recommendation of the First Minister, has appointed Mr Angus MacDonald as a member of the Scottish Land Court with effect from 4 November 2002.
Mr Angus MacDonald will succeed Mr Donald Macdonald who has now retired. The appointment will be on a part-time basis
Mr Angus MacDonald, age 51, from Skye is a fluent Gaelic speaker and has wide practical and administrative experience of agriculture in the Highlands and Islands.
The Scottish Land Court was established in 1911 under the Small Landholders Tenure Scotland Act. The work of the Court is essentially judicial in character and at present mainly involved in Crofting. Appointments to the Court are made by the Queen on the recommendation of the First Minister. Legislation requires that one of its members should be a Gaelic speaker.