{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defence-act-1859/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defence-act-1859/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/22/12",
  "legislation_title": "Defence Act 1859",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defence-act-1859",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "†Conveyances to the Secretary of State for War of land in Scotland as in Sched. (B).",
  "text": "... conveyances of lands and heritages in Scotland to be purchased by the Secretary of State for Defence may be according to the form in the schedule (B.) to this Act, or as near thereto as the circumstances of the case admit; which ... conveyances being duly executed and being registered in the . . . register of sasines kept for the . . . burgh, . . . in which the lands and heritages are locally situated, or in the general register of sasines for Scotland kept at Edinburgh, within sixty days from the last date thereof, which the respective keepers of the said registers are hereby authorized and required to do, shall give and constitute a good and undoubted right, and complete and valid ... title in all time coming, to the Secretary of State for Defence and his successors, to the lands and heritages therein described or referred to and intended to be thereby conveyed, any law or custom to the contrary notwithstanding ...",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 3 repealed (S.) (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), sch. 13 Pt. 1 (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.I. 1964/488"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "A dagger appended to a marginal note means that it is no longer accurate"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/22/12/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:13:38.132038+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."
}