{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/entail-scotland-act-1882/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/entail-scotland-act-1882/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/45-46/53",
  "legislation_title": "Entail (Scotland) Act 1882",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/entail-scotland-act-1882",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Applications for authority to charge for improvements and grant leases may be made in the sheriff court.",
  "text": "Any application under the Entail Amendment Act, 1875, and the Entail Amendment Act, 1878, for authority to borrow and charge for improvement expenditure, and any application for authority to grant leases under the Entail Acts may be made in the sheriff court. And it shall be lawful for the sheriff (including the sheriff substitute) to grant such authority and to exercise all necessary powers for carrying out the provisions of the said Acts in those particulars.\nIn such applications the procedure with regard to notice and inquiry shall be as nearly as possible the same as in applications to the sheriff for authority to feu under the Entail Amendment Act, 1868, and there shall be the like appeal to one of the divisions of the Court of Session, but there shall be no appeal from the sheriff substitute to the sheriff.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1875 c. 61."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1878 c. 28."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1868 c. 84."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/45-46/53/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:41:22.748209+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."
}