{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-act-1967/section-8A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-act-1967/section-8A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1967/10",
  "legislation_title": "Forestry Act 1967",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-act-1967",
  "path": "section/8A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8A",
  "heading": "General duty of Ministers.",
  "text": "In performing their functions under this Act the Ministers shall have regard to the national interest in maintaining and expanding the forestry resources of England or (as the case may be) Wales ....",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (S.) (1.4.2019) by Forestry and Land Management (Scotland) Act 2018 (asp 8), s. 85(2), sch. 2 (with ss. 80, 83); S.S.I. 2019/47, reg. 2 (with transitional provisions and savings in regs. 3-22 (as amended (18.3.2021) by The Forestry and Land Management (Scotland) Act 2018 (Consequential, Saving and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/44), regs. 1(1), 11(2)(b)(3)(a)))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 8A inserted by Forestry Act 1981 (c. 39, SIF 54), s. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 8A substituted (30.6.1999) by S.I. 1999/1756, art. 2, Sch. para.3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 8A substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No. 755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 51 (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 8A omitted (1.4.2019) by virtue of The Forestry and Land Management (Scotland) Act 2018 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/734), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 11; S.S.I. 2019/47, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1967/10/section/8A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:56:01.788833+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."
}