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Application to Crown 26.     This Act shall apply to land held of the Crown and of the Prince and Steward of Scotland, and to land in which there is any other interest belonging to Her Majesty in right of the Crown or to a Government department, or held on behalf of Her Majesty for the purposes of a Government department, in like manner as it applies to other land. Rules 27.-(1) The  Secretary  of  State  may,  after  consultation  with  the  Lord  President  of  the  Court  of Session, make rules- (a)  regulating the making up and keeping of the register, (b)  prescribing the form of any search, report or other document to be issued or used under or in connection with this Act and regulating the issue of any such document; (c)   regulating the procedure on application for any registration; (d)  prescribing the form of deeds relating to registered interests in land; (e)   concerning such other matters as seem to the Secretary of State to be necessary or proper in order to give full effect to the purposes of this Act. (2) The power to make rules under this section shall be exerciseable by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament. Interpretation, etc. 28.-(1) In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires- “deed”  has  the  meaning  assigned  to  it  by  section  3  of  the  Titles  to  Land  Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1868, section 3 of the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1874  and section 2 of the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1924; “feu” includes blench holding and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly; “heritable security” has the same meaning as in section 9(8) of the Conveyancing and Feudal Reform (Scotland) Act 1970; “incorporeal    heritable    right” does    not    include    a    right    to    salmon    fishings; “interest in land” means any estate, interest, servitude or other heritable right in or over land, including a heritable security but excluding a lease which is not a long lease; “the Keeper” has the meaning assigned by section 1(2) of this Act; “land” includes buildings and other structures and land covered with water; “long lease” means a probative lease- (a)   exceeding 20 years; or (b)  which is subject to any provision whereby any person holding the interest of the grantor is under a future obligation, if so requested by the grantee, to renew the lease so that the total duration could (in terms of the lease, as renewed, and without any subsequent agreement,