{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farm-woodland-premium-scheme-1997/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farm-woodland-premium-scheme-1997/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/829",
  "legislation_title": "The Farm Woodland Premium Scheme 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/farm-woodland-premium-scheme-1997",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Restriction on approval of applications: resumed land",
  "text": "(1) The appropriate Minister shall not approve an application which relates to land in England or Wales, possession of which was obtained from a tenant of that land by means of a notice to quit—\n(a) to which Case B in Part I of Schedule 3 to the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 applied; or\n(b) in respect of which a counter-notice could have been served under section 26(1)(b) of the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 unless no such counter-notice was served or unless the Agricultural Land Tribunal consented to the operation of the notice to quit on the grounds set out in section 27(3)(e) of that Act (with or without other grounds).\n(2) The appropriate Minister shall not approve an application which relates to land in Scotland, possession of which was obtained from a tenant of that land by means of—\n(a) a notice to quit to which section 22(2)(b) of the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991 applied;\n(b) a notice to quit in respect of which a counter-notice could have been served under section 22(1) of the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991 unless no such counter-notice was served or unless the Scottish Land Court consented to the operation of the notice to quit on the grounds set out in section 24(1)(d) of that Act (with or without other grounds);\n(c) an authorisation given by the Scottish Land Court under section 20(1) of the Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993 to resume a croft or part of a croft;\n(d) an authorisation given by the Scottish Land Court under section 20(4) of the Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993 to resume any land forming part of a common grazing; or\n(e) a notice served pursuant to a resumption clause in a lease.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1986 c. 5. Schedule 3 was amended by the Agricultural Holdings (Amendment) Act 1990 (c. 15)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1991 c. 55."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1993 c. 44."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/829/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:20:42.085597+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."
}