{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crofters-holdings-scotland-act-1886/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crofters-holdings-scotland-act-1886/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/49-50/29",
  "legislation_title": "Crofters Holdings (Scotland) Act 1886",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crofters-holdings-scotland-act-1886",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend the Law relating to the Tenure of Land by Crofters in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, and for other purposes relating thereto.\n[25th June 1886]",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act amended by Crofters (Holdings) (Scotland) Act 1887 (c. 24) and Crofters (Scotland) Act 1961 (c. 58), s. 2(7); amended with the substitution of “landholder” for “crofter” and extended by Small Landholders (Scotland) Act 1911 (c. 49), s. 1; applied by Agricultural Land (Utilisation) Act 1931 (c. 41), s. 24(f); applied with modifications by Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1949 (c. 75), s. 73, Crofters (Scotland) Act 1955 (3 & 4 Eliz. 2 c. 21), s. 34(1), Land Drainage (Scotland) Act 1958 (c. 24), s. 14, Opencast Coal Act 1958 (c. 69), s. 52(5)(b) and Deer (Scotland) Act 1959 (c. 40), s. 11(4); excluded by Agriculture Act 1967 (c. 22), s. 29(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Functions of Crofters Commission now exercisable by Land Court: Small Landholders (Scotland) Act 1911 (c. 49), s. 28"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Functions of Secretary for Scotland now exercisable by Secretary of State: Secretaries of State Act 1926 (c. 18), s. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Functions of Fishery Board for Scotland now exercisable by Secretary of State: Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1939 (c. 20), s. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1898 (c. 22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Act applied (with modifications) by Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1968 (c. 34, SIF 2:1), s. 11(8) and by Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 (c. 55, SIF 2:1), s. 14(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Act applied (with modifications) by S.I. 1989/380, regs. 9–12, Sch. 5 para. 25"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C9",
      "text": "Act applied (with modifications) (25.9.1991) by Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991 (c. 55, SIF 2:3), ss. 83, 89(2) (with s. 45(3), Sch. 12 para. 3)Act applied (with modifications) (1.4.1993) by S.I. 1993/923, regs. 10-12, Sch. 2 Pt. III para.25"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C10",
      "text": "Act applied (with modifications) (1.4.1994) by S.I. 1994/672, regs. 10, 11, 12, 33, Sch. 3 Pt. III para. 25."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/49-50/29/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:37:30.959995+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."
}