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The Crofting Commission is set to install a constable or investigating officer to oversee the running of Upper Coll village grazings, after it disbanded the grazings committee.

 

It is understood a choice of three names was put forward in November to act as constable.

 

The commission plans to meet with crofters in the village later this month.

 

The crofting regulator also intends to meet with crofters from Mangersta in Uig, after the grazings committee there was also sacked.

 

A commission spokesperson said it has "arranged to meet with the shareholders in both Upper Coll and Mangersta Common Grazings in mid-May to advance the process which has already begun in these townships."

 

The body said it was reassuring shareholders that "it is committed to assisting" all common grazings committees and clerks to self-regulate within the provisions of crofting legislation and "will work with them" to do so.

 

"To support this, it is important that all shareholders have the fullest information about the differing roles and duties of the grazings committee and the grazings clerk.

 

Each local grazing committee is responsible for managing the rights of all crofters within the common grazings in accordance with their own, approved regulations, it said.

 

The clerk's role is to receive and pay-out all shareholders monies in accordance with their approved regulations as set out in the Crofting Act 1993.

 

 

Crofting Commission pledges to "work with" grazings committees

 

4 May 2016