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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-1970/section-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-1970/section-48.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1970/40",
  "legislation_title": "Agriculture Act 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-act-1970",
  "path": "section/48",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Acquisition of land for purposes of smallholdings.",
  "text": "(1) Where in the exercise of their powers under section 120 of the Local Government Act 1972 (power of local authorities to acquire land by agreement) a smallholdings authority propose to acquire for the purposes of smallholdings any land outside their area, they shall consult the council of the county or county borough . . . in whose area the land is situated.\n(2) Notwithstanding anything in that Act or in any other enactment, a smallholdings authority shall not be authorised to acquire any land compulsorily for the purposes of smallholdings.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), s. 272(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 48(1) inserted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 66(6), Sch. 16 para. 38(2) (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      "text": "Words repealed by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 30"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1972 c. 70."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/40/section/48",
    "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."
}