{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/documentary-evidence-act-1895/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/documentary-evidence-act-1895/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/58-59/9",
  "legislation_title": "Documentary Evidence Act 1895",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/documentary-evidence-act-1895",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Application of Documentary Evidence Acts to Board of Agriculture.",
  "text": "The Documentary Evidence Act 1868, as amended by the Documentary Evidence Act 1882, shall apply to the Board of Agriculture in like manner as if that Board were mentioned in the first column of the schedule to the first-mentioned Act, and the President or any member of the Board, or the Secretary of the Board, or any person authorised by the President to act on behalf of the Secretary of the Board, were mentioned in the second column of that schedule, and as if the regulations referred to in those Acts included any document issued by the Board.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1868 c. 37."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1882 c. 9."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Functions of Board of Agriculture and President of the Board now exercisable by Ministry and Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food respectively: Board of Agriculture and Fisheries Act 1903 (c. 31), s. 1(1); Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Act 1919 (c. 91), s. 1(1) and S.I. 1955/554 (1955 I, p. 1200), art. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/58-59/9/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:29:57.158894+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."
}