{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-act-1979/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-act-1979/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/21",
  "legislation_title": "Forestry Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-act-1979",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Finance for forestry.",
  "text": "(1) The Forestry Commissioners may, with Treasury approval as regards England ..., ..., make grants and loans to owners and lessees of landin England ... for and in connection with the use and management of the land for forestry purposes.\n(2) Any such grant or loan shall be payable in accordance with section 41 of the Forestry Act 1967.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 1 repealed (S.) (1.4.2019) by Forestry and Land Management (Scotland) Act 2018 (asp 8), s. 85(2), sch. 2 (with s. 83); S.S.I. 2019/47, reg. 2 (with regs. 3-22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 1(1) inserted (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1747, art. 3, Sch. 12 Pt. II para. 6(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 1(1) omitted (1.4.2013) by virtue of The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No. 755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 156(2) (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 1(1) 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. 54(a)(i); S.S.I. 2019/47, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 1(1) inserted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No. 755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 156(3) (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 1(1) 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. 54(a)(ii); S.S.I. 2019/47, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 1(2) substituted (16.3.2000) by S.I. 2000/746, art. 2, Sch. para. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "S. 1(3) 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. 54(b); S.S.I. 2019/47, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 1 amended (S.) (27.5.1997) by 1997 c. 8, ss. 166(1)(b), 278(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/21/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:18:19.902088+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."
}