{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1968/section-17",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/34",
  "legislation_title": "Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1968",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Interpretation etc. of Part II.",
  "text": "(1) In this Part of this Act—\n“acquiring authority” has the meaning assigned to it by section 12(1) of this Act;\n“the initial date” means 1st November 1967;\n“possession” means actual possession;\n. . .\n“the principal Scottish Act” means the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1949:\nand unless the context otherwise requires expressions used in this Part of this Act and the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 or, as the case may be, the principal Scottish Act have the same meanings in this Part of this Act as in that Act.\n(2) In this Part of this Act . . . references to the acquisition of any property are references to the vesting of the property in the person acquiring it.\n(3) Section 95(1), (2) and (3) of the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 and section 86(1) and (2) of the principal Scottish Act (Crown land) shall have effect as if references to that Act included references to this Part of this Act.\n(4) References in this section to this Part of this Act include references to Schedules 1 to 4 to this Act.\n(5) In the application of this section to Scotland, in subsection (2) the words from “references to the termination” to “and” shall be omitted.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 17 repealed (S.) (25.9.1991) by Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991 (c. 55, SIF 2:3), ss. 88(2), 89(2), Sch. 13, Pt. I (with s. 45(3), Sch. 12 paras. 1, 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Definition repealed (E.W.) by Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 (c.5, SIF 2:3), ss. 99, 100, Sch. 13 para. 3, Sch. 15 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted (E. W.) by Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 (c.5, SIF 2:3), ss. 99, 100, Sch. 13 para. 3, Sch. 14 para. 46(1)(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words repealed by Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 (c.5, SIF 2:3), ss. 99, 100, Sch. 13 para. 3, Sch. 15 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words substituted (E.W.) by Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 (c. 5, SIF 2:3), ss. 99, 100, Sch. 13 para. 3, Sch. 14 para. 46(1)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1949 c. 75."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/34/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:54:16.339751+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."
}