"sid" wrote
| | Does it kick in 1 (one) millimetre over the border?
| Yes, if the border can be established to the mm.
| How would you manage to do that then?

In the same way as you establish property boundaries in any other
circumstance. The mm might be slightly extreme in practice, but the
principle is valid in law.

| Don't be silly. properties are either registered as Scottish or
| English. Nobody gets 2 sets of votes, two different postal
| deliveries, rubbish collections etc.

You can have as many votes as you have entries on the electoral register (it
is illegal to use more than one in the same election; i.e. if you have a 2nd
home you can vote in two different local council elections but you cannot
vote twice in a general or European election).

As for postal deliveries and rubbish collections, that depends on how the
relevant authorities organise their routes. What do you think happens when
the boundary between council areas runs down the middle of the road.

| | What if a property straddles the border?
| Effectively there would be two separate sales, in two
| separate jurisdictions, with two separate land registries.
| There would after all be two separate sets of council tax
| to pay.
| Don't be silly (again)

So what if someone buys adjoining properties, one in England and one in
Scotland, and merges them, or builds across the border? The international
boundary doesn't move because someone puts a shed over it.

I'm sure I've read of a pub where one end of the bar is in a different
licensing authority than the other, and it is/was established on the
NI/Irish border to build agricultural sheds spanning the border to
facilitate smuggling.

Owain