{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-neighbouring-land-act-1992/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-neighbouring-land-act-1992/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/23",
  "legislation_title": "Access to Neighbouring Land Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-neighbouring-land-act-1992",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Interpretation and application.",
  "text": "(1) Any reference in this Act to an “entry” upon any servient land includes a reference to the doing on that land of anything necessary for carrying out the works to the dominant land which are reasonably necessary for its preservation; and “enter” shall be construed accordingly.\n(2) This Act applies in relation to any obstruction of, or other interference with, a right over, or interest in, any land as it applies in relation to an entry upon that land; and “enter” and “entry” shall be construed accordingly.\n(3) In this Act—\n“access order” has the meaning given by section 1(1) above;\n“applicant” means a person making an application for an access order and, subject to section 4 above, “the respondent” means the respondent, or any of the respondents, to such an application;\n“the court” means the High Court or the county court;\n“the dominant land” and “the servient land” respectively have the meanings given by section 1(1) above, but subject, in the case of servient land, to section 2(1) above;\n“land” does not include a highway;\n“the specified works” means the works specified in the access order in pursuance of section 2(1)(a) above.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 8(3) substituted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 9 para. 52; S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(c) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 8 wholly in force at 31.1.1993 by s. 9(2) and S.I. 1992/3349, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/23/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:57.910005+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}