{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1941-repealed-5111993/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1941-repealed-5111993/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/4-5/50",
  "legislation_title": "Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1941 (repealed 5.11.1993)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1941-repealed-5111993",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them:—\n“the Minister” means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food;\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n“Defence Regulations” means Regulations made under the Emergency Powers (Defence) Acts, 1939 and 1940;\n“drainage”, “drainage authority”, “internal drainage board”, and “internal drainage district” have the same meanings as in the Land Drainage Act 1976;\n“fen-land” shall be construed generally, and not as limited to land in that part of England commonly known as “the Fens”;\n“local drainage district” means a drainage district other than a catchment area;\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of S. I. 1955/555"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Definitions repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973 (c. 39), Sch. 1 Pt. VIII"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Land Drainage Act 1976 (c. 70, SIF 73:1), Sch. 6 para. 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1939 c. 62."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1940 c. 20."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1976 c. 70."
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision extends to Scotland only; a separate version has been created for England and Wales only."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/4-5/50/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:30:15.395757+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."
}