{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-1970/section-38",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-1970/section-38.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1970/40",
  "legislation_title": "Agriculture Act 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-1970",
  "path": "section/38",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Smallholdings authorities.",
  "text": "The following councils shall be smallholdings authorities, that is to say—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) the council of every county in England . . .;\n(bb) the council of every county or county borough in Wales;\nc),(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 38(a) repealed by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 102, Sch. 17"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 38(b) repealed (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 66(6)(8), Sch. 16 para. 38(1), Sch. 18 (with ss. 54(5)(7), 55(5), Sch. 17 paras. 22(1), 23(2)); S.I. 1996/396, art. 4, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 38(bb) inserted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 66(6), Sch. 16 para. 38(1) (with ss. 54(5)(7), 55(5), Sch. 17 paras. 22(1), 23(2)); S.I. 1996/396, art. 4, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 38(c)(d) repealed by Local Government Act 1972 (c.70), Sch. 30"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/40/section/38",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:51:00.537576+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."
}