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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-holdings-act-1986/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-holdings-act-1986/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/5",
  "legislation_title": "Agricultural Holdings Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-holdings-act-1986",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to agricultural holdings, with amendments to give effect to recommendations of the Law Commission.\n[18th March 1986]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "A Table showing the derivation of the provisions of this consolidation Act will be found at the end of the Act. The Table has no official status."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act modified by Opencast Coal Act 1958 (c. 69, SIF 86), s. 14(2)–(4) as substituted by Housing and Planning Act 1986 (c. 63, SIF 86), s. 39(3), Sch. 8 para. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act excluded (1.9.1995) by 1995 c. 8, ss. 4(1), 41(2) (with s. 37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act excluded (3.11.1994) by 1991 c. 53, s. 84(3)(d) (as substituted by 1994 c. 33, s. 96)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act (except Sch. 12 para. 4(1)(a)): transfer of functions (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Act excluded (1.8.2000) by 1999 c. 33, s. 149(3)(d); S.I. 2000/1985, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Act excluded (20.3.2015) by Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (c. 2), s. 95(1), Sch. 10 para. 3(1)(e); S.I. 2015/778, art. 2(1)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Act continued (W.) (1.9.2024) by The Agricultural Holdings (Requests for Landlord’s Consent or Variation of Terms and the Suitability Test) (Wales) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/798), regs. 1(2)(b), 6(2)"
    }
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:34.910760+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."
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