{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/congested-districts-scotland-act-1897/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/congested-districts-scotland-act-1897/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/60-61/53",
  "legislation_title": "Congested Districts (Scotland) Act 1897",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/congested-districts-scotland-act-1897",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to provide for the administration of sums available for the improvement of congested districts in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.\n[6th August 1897]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act extended by S.I. 1972/971, art. 4, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Congested districts (Scotland) Fund superseded by Agriculture (Scotland) Fund which has now been wound up: Small Landholders (Scotland) Act 1911 (c. 49), s. 5 and Agriculture (Scotland) Act 1948 (c. 45), s. 67"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Functions of Commissioners (Congested Districts (Scotland) Commissioners) under this Act now exercisable by Secretary of State: Small Landholders (Scotland) Act 1911 (c. 49), s. 28, Ministry of Transport Act 1919 (c. 50), s. 2(1), S.R. & O. 1920/2124 (Rev. XV, p. 210: 1920 II, p. 1446), Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1928 (c. 34), s. 1, Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1939 (c. 20), s. 1, S.R. & O. 1941/654 (Rev. XV, p. 228: 1941 I, p. 1221), 1946/375 (Rev. XV, p. 229: 1946 I, p. 1009), S.I. 1953/1204 (1953 I, p. 1225), 1955/1955 (1955 I, p. 1205), 1959/1768 (1959 I, p. 1793) and 1970/1681"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/60-61/53/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:28:06.824688+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."
}