{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/geological-survey-act-1845/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/geological-survey-act-1845/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/8-9/63",
  "legislation_title": "Geological Survey Act 1845",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/geological-survey-act-1845",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Act.",
  "text": "In construing this Act . . . the words “magistrates' court\" shall include sheriffs principal of sheriffdoms in Scotland, . . . . . . ; the word “owner” shall include all bodies, politic, corporate or collegiate, and all persons entitled to any estate or interest in possession; and the word “land” shall extend to lands, grounds, hereditaments and heritages, of any tenure or description; and every word importing the singular number shall, when necessary to give full effect to the enactments herein contained, be deemed to extend and be applied to several persons or things as well as one person or thing; and any words importing the plural number only shall include the singular number; . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 6 and definition of \"county\" repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. XIII Group1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 6 substituted (1.4.2005) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), s. 110(1), Sch. 8 para. 26; S.I. 2005/910, art. 3(y)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971 (c. 58), s. 4, Sch. 1 para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words repealed by Science and Technology Act 1965 (c. 4), Sch. 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/8-9/63/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:33:46.164413+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."
}