{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-act-1984/section-51",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-act-1984/section-51.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/30",
  "legislation_title": "Food Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-act-1984",
  "path": "section/51",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "Power to sell to local authority.",
  "text": "(1) The owner of a market undertaking, or of any rights in respect of a market and of tolls, whether established under, or enjoyed by virtue of, statutory powers or not, may sell or lease to a local authority the whole or any part of his market undertaking or rights, but subject to all attached liabilities.\n(2) A sale by a . . . company under this section must be authorised—\n(a) if the company is a company within the meaning of the Companies Act 1985, by special resolution;\n(b) if the company is not such a company, by a resolution passed by three-fourths in number and value of the members present, either personally or by proxy, at a meeting specially convened for the purpose with notice of the business to be transacted.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word repealed by Food Safety Act 1990 (c. 16, SIF 53:1, 2), ss. 52, 54, 59(4), Sch. 2 para. 3, Sch. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Figure substituted by the Companies Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1985 (c. 9, SIF 27), s. 30, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 51(2)(a) substituted (1.10.2007) by Companies Act 2006 (Commencement No. 3, Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2194), art. 1(3)(a), Sch. 4 para. 37 (with art. 12)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/30/section/51",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:02:26.993897+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."
}