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| | Akerbeltz.org - Official Status for Gaelic |
 | | There is no Act of Parliament conveying such status to the language, as with Welsh; nor, given Britains lack of a written constitution, is there any kind of constitutional protection, such as Irish enjoys in the Irish Republic. |
 | | To similar effect is the Scottish Land Court Act 1993 (1993 c.45, s.1(5)), requiring a Gaelic-speaking member on the seven-member Land Court, which deals with non-crofting land disputes in the Highlands and Islands as part of its national remit. |
 | | The Dynamics of Scottish Gaelic (paper presented to the Language Policy and Planning in the European Union Conference Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, 28-29 April 1995). |
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