{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/allotments-act-1832-repealed-5111993/section-6",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Will4/2-3/42",
  "legislation_title": "Allotments Act 1832 (repealed 5.11.1993)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/allotments-act-1832-repealed-5111993",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Power to recover possession of land illegally held over, by summary process.",
  "text": "If any person to whom such portion of land as aforesaid shall have been let, for his or her own occupation, shall refuse to quit and to deliver up possession thereof when thereto required according to the terms of this Act, or if any other person or persons shall unlawfully enter upon or take or hold possession of any such land, it shall be lawful for the churchwardens and overseers of the poor, or any or either of them, to exhibit a complaint against the person so in possession of such land before two of His Majesty’s justices of the peace, who are hereby authorized and required to issue a summons, under their hands and seals, to the person against whom such complaint shall be made, to appear before them at a time and place appointed therein; and such justices are hereby required and empowered, upon the appearance of the defendant before them, or upon proof on oath that such summons has been duly served upon him, or left at his usual place of residence, or if there should have been any difficulty in finding such usual place of residence, then upon proof on oath of such difficulty, and that such summons has been affixed on the door of the parish church of the said parish in which such land is situated, and in any extra-parochial place on some public building or other conspicuous place therein, to proceed to hear and determine the matter of such complaint, and if they shall find and adjudge the same to be true, then by warrant under their hands and seals to cause possession of the land in question to be delivered to the churchwardens and overseers of the poor, or to some of them.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4/2-3/42/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:51:49.427503+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."
}