{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/countryside-act-1968/section-50",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/countryside-act-1968/section-50.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/41",
  "legislation_title": "Countryside Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/countryside-act-1968",
  "path": "section/50",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Short title, repeals, commencement and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Countryside Act 1968.\n(2) The enactments mentioned in Schedule 5 to this Act shall be repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.\n(3) This Act shall come into force at the expiration of a period of one month beginning with the date on which it is passed.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) This Act, except subsections (1), (3) . . . of this section, sections 15, 24, 25, 26, 32, 37, 46(3) and so much of sections 46(1), 48, and 49 as relates to the first-mentioned sections, shall not extend to Scotland, . . . this Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 50(4) repealed by House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24, SIF 89), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24, SIF 89), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24, SIF 89), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 1(5), 21(1)—(5), 50(2), Sch. 5 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, except as indicated, does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/41/section/50",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:54:08.337160+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."
}