{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/caravan-sites-act-1968/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/caravan-sites-act-1968/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/52",
  "legislation_title": "Caravan Sites Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/caravan-sites-act-1968",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to restrict the eviction from caravan sites of occupiers of caravans and make other provision for the benefit of such occupiers; to secure the establishment of such sites by local authorities for the use of gipsies and other persons of nomadic habit, and control in certain areas the unauthorised occupation of land by such persons; to amend the definition of “caravan” in Part I of the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.\n[26th July 1968]",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act not in force at Royal Assent see s. 17(2); Act wholly in force at 1. 4. 1970 see S.I. 1970/199.Act: transfer of functions (w.) (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "Act does not extend to Scotland or Northern Ireland; Pt. I and ss. 13, 14(1), 16 and 17(1)(3) extend to England and Wales and Scotland."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/52/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:53:16.992646+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."
}