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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-scotland-act-1948/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-scotland-act-1948/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/11-12/45",
  "legislation_title": "Agriculture (Scotland) Act 1948",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-scotland-act-1948",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend the enactments relating to agricultural holdings in Scotland; to make further provision for the improvement and development of agriculture and the use of agricultural land in Scotland; to authorise the making of grants towards the provision of houses and buildings for landholders and cottars in the Highlands and Islands; to extend the time for making applications for assistance under the Housing (Agricultural Population) (Scotland) Act, 1938; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.\n[13th July 1948]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Certain functions of Secretary of State under this Act delegated to Agricultural Executive Committees by S.I. 1950/1552 (1950 I, p. 106)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act excluded (25. 9. 1991) by Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991 (c. 55), ss.35, 80, 89(2) (with ss. 45(3), 51(1), Sch. 12 para. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at Royal Assent"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/11-12/45/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:22:54.133979+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."
}