{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-poisonous-substances-act-1952-repealed-111997/section-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-poisonous-substances-act-1952-repealed-111997/section-11.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6and1Eliz2/15-16/60",
  "legislation_title": "Agriculture (Poisonous Substances) Act 1952 (repealed 1.1.1997)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-poisonous-substances-act-1952-repealed-111997",
  "path": "section/11",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Application to Scotland.",
  "text": "(1) The provisions of this section shall have effect for the purposes of the application of this Act to Scotland.\n2)(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) For the purposes of any proceedings under this Act a certificate which is admitted as evidence under subsection (4) of section six shall be sufficient evidence of the matters stated therein unless a party requires the person by whom the analysis in question was made to be called as a witness, and in the latter event any evidence given by that person as to the result of the analysis shall be sufficient evidence of that result.\n(5) In the application of section six the expression “defendant” means accused; the expression “hearing” means trial; any reference to a summons shall be construed as a reference to a complaint; and for references to the day on which a summons is served and to the day on which it is returnable there shall be substituted respectively references to the day on which a complaint is served and to the day on which the prosecution thereon proceeds to trial.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 9, 11(2)(3) repealed with saving by S.I. 1975/45, reg. 5, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 11(1)(4)(5) extended with modifications by Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1968 (c. 34, SIF 2:1), s. 6(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6and1Eliz2/15-16/60/section/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:17:15.739760+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."
}