{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defence-act-1860/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defence-act-1860/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/23-24/112",
  "legislation_title": "Defence Act 1860",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defence-act-1860",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Contents of such notice.",
  "text": "Every such notice shall specify the lands to be required to be taken or to be kept free from buildings and other obstructions (as the case may be), and the places where copies of the declaration relating thereto have been deposited as hereinbefore required:\nEvery such notice shall also state that the said Secretary of State is willing to treat as to the compensation to be paid for such lands or (in the case of lands required to be kept free from buildings) as to the compensation to be paid for the damage to be sustained by reason of the restraints under this Act on the exercise of the right of building and other rights incident to the ownership of such lands, and by reason of the execution under the powers of this Act of any intended works specified in such notice:\nAnd every such notice shall demand from the party to whom the same is given the particulars of the estate and interest of such party in the lands, and of the claims made by such party in respect thereof, stating therein the amount which such party may be willing to receive as compensation for his estate and interest, or for any damage in respect thereof referred to in such notice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 1, 2, 4, 7 and 8 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1875 (c. 66) but reproduced for the purpose of construing the remaining provisions of the Act"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/23-24/112/section/8",
    "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."
}