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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/improvement-of-land-act-1864/section-15",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/27-28/114",
  "legislation_title": "Improvement Of Land Act 1864",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/improvement-of-land-act-1864",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "cause application to be investigated;",
  "text": "If the Commissioners shall think fit to entertain the application so made to them, they may cause the land to be inspected and examined by an assistant commissioner, or an engineer or surveyor, who shall have regard to and examine the proposals and statements contained in such application, and shall report his opinion thereon, and who shall also report whether in his judgment the proposed improvements will effect a permanent increase of the yearly value of the land exceeding the yearly amount proposed to be charged thereon in respect of the improvements applied for; and the Commissioners may by themselves, or any assistant commissioner, engineer, or surveyor, make such other inquiries in relation to any such application as they shall think fit: Provided that the above requisition as to increased annual value shall not apply to any outlay proposed to be made upon or in respect of planting only.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/27-28/114/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:04:31.386960+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."
}