{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1972/section-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1972/section-20.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1972/62",
  "legislation_title": "Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1972",
  "path": "section/20",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Recovery of expenses incurred by authority exercising default powers under orders made by virtue of Plant Health Act 1967.",
  "text": "It is hereby declared that an order made or having effect under the Plant Health Act 1967 may contain provisions for requiring a person to pay to a competent authority or local authority for the purposes of that Act the cost to the authority of doing anything which that person has, in breach of a requirement imposed on him by or under the order, failed to do.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1967 c. 8."
    },
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "For previous exercises of power see Index to Government Orders."
    },
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P2",
      "text": "S. 20: S. 20 power exercised by S.I. 1991/1905"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/62/section/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:48:33.786986+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."
}