{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1976/section-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1976/section-27.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1976/55",
  "legislation_title": "Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1976",
  "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 1976.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) Sections ... 4, 5, . . . . . . of this Act do not extend to Scotland, ...\n(6) Except for the following provisions, namely—\n(a) sections ... 15, 26(1) and (2) and this section;\n(b) section 7 and Schedule 3 so far as they relate to enactments (within the meaning of that section) that extend to Northern Ireland; and\n(c) Part I of Schedule 4 and, so far as it relates to that Part, section 26(3),\nthis Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 27(2)-(4) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 2 Group 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 27(5) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 2 Group 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by Agricultural Holdings (Notices to Quit) Act 1977 (c. 12), s. 13, Sch. 2 (subject to a saving in s. 14 in relation to notices to quit given before 7.4.1978)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words repealed by Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 (c. 5, SIF 2:3), ss. 99, 101, Sch. 13 para. 3, Sch. 15 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in s. 27(6)(a) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 2 Group 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 27(2): power of appointment conferred by s. 27(2) fully exercised: 1/2/1977 appointed by S.I. 1977/39, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 27(3): power of appointment conferred by section 27(3) exercised: 7.4.1978 appointed by S.I. 1978/402"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 27(4): Order under s. 1 dissolving the Sugar Board came into operation on 15.2.1977: 1977/224"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/55/section/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:28:54.241411+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."
}