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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-act-1981/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-act-1981/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/39",
  "legislation_title": "Forestry Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-act-1981",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Number of Forestry Commissioners.",
  "text": "In section 2(1) of the Forestry Act 1967 (which provides that the Forestry Commissioners shall consist of a chairman and not more than nine other members) for the word “nine” there shall be substituted the word “ten”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 1–5, 6(2) and Sch. is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/39/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:14:00.323056+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}