{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-war-provisions-act-1940-repealed-5111993/section-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-war-provisions-act-1940-repealed-5111993/section-22.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/3-4/14",
  "legislation_title": "Agriculture (Miscellaneous War Provisions) Act 1940 (repealed 5.11.1993)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-war-provisions-act-1940-repealed-5111993",
  "path": "section/22",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Interpretation construction, citation and duration of Part III.",
  "text": "(1) In this Part of this Act—\n(a) the expression “agricultural land” has the meaning assigned to it by section twenty-nine of the Land Drainage Act, 1930, for the purposes of Part IV of that Act;\n(b) the expression “dam” includes a lock, weir or other structure affecting the flow of water in any watercourse.\n(2) This Part of this Act shall be construed as one with the Land Drainage Act, 1930, and may be cited together with that Act as the Land Drainage Acts, 1930 and 1940.\n3)(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 14, 16–21, 22(3)(4), 23–26 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973 (c. 39), Sch. 1 Pt. VIII"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 22(1)(a) extended by Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1943 (c. 16), s. 3(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 22(2): Land Drainage Act 1930 (c. 44) repealed and Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30, SIF 115:1), s. 17(2)(a) and Land Drainage Act 1976 (c. 70, SIF 73:1), Sch. 6 para. 9 apply"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/3-4/14/section/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:31:23.387659+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."
}