{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defence-act-1860/section-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defence-act-1860/section-47.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/23-24/112",
  "legislation_title": "Defence Act 1860",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defence-act-1860",
  "path": "section/47",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Interpretation of terms.",
  "text": "In the construction of this Act . . . the following words and expressions shall in this Act and the Defence Act, 1842, have the several meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction; (that is to say,)\nThe word “lands” shall extend to messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments of any tenure:\nThe word “ lease ” shall include an agreement for a lease:\n. . .\n. . .\nThe word “ justices ” and “ justice ” shall mean respectively justices or a justice of the peace acting for the . . . place where the matter requiring the cognizance of such justices or justice arises, and not interested in the matter, and, where such matter arises in respect of lands being the property of one and the same party situate not wholly in one . . . place, shall mean justices or a justice acting for the . . . place where any part of such lands is situate, and not interested in such matter; and the expression “ two justices ” shall mean two justices assembled and acting together:\nThe word “ owner ” shall include any corporation or person having authority under this Act or otherwise to agree with the said Secretary of State as to the purchase money or compensation to be paid for any lands.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by S.I. 1964/488"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Definitions in s. 47 repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. XIII Group 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 47 repealed (E.W.) (1.4.2005) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), s. 110(1), Sch. 8 para. 40(1), Sch. 10; S.I. 2005/910, art. 3(y)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 47 repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. XIII Group 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1842 c. 94."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Functions of justices of the peace now exercisable by resident magistrates (N.I.): Magistrates' Court Act (Northern Ireland) 1964 (c. 21), s. 13"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/23-24/112/section/47",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:11:16.382088+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."
}