{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1972/section-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1972/section-27.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1972/62",
  "legislation_title": "Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1972",
  "path": "section/27",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Short title, commencement and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1972.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Sections . . . , ... 22 and 23 of, and Schedules ... 5 to, this Act extend to Scotland only.\n(5) Except for the following provisions, that is to say—\n(a) sections 9, 10, 11, 16, 17(1), 26(1) and (2) and this section and Schedule 4; and\n(b) section 26(3) and (4) and Schedule 6 so far as they relate to the Corn Sales Act 1921, . . . , to section 26 of the Agriculture Act 1967 and to sections 32, 33 and 50 of the Agriculture Act 1970,\nthis Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 27(2) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 2 Group 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 27(3) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 2 Group 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Number repealed by Slaughterhouses Act 1974 (c. 3, SIF 112), s. 47(2), Sch. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 27(4) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 2 Group 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words repealed by House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24, SIF 89), s. 10(2), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1921 c. 35."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1967 c. 22."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1970 c. 40."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/62/section/27",
    "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."
}