{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inclosure-act-1845/section-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inclosure-act-1845/section-20.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/8-9/118",
  "legislation_title": "Inclosure Act 1845",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inclosure-act-1845",
  "path": "section/20",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "In case of disability Commissioners to name substitutes.",
  "text": "Whenever any person interested in land as aforesaid shall be an infant, person of unsound mind, idiot, feme covert, or under any other legal disability, or beyond the seas, the guardian, trustee, committee of the estate, husband, or attorney respectively, or in default thereof such person as may be nominated for that purpose by the commissioners, and whom they are hereby empowered to nominate under their hands and seal, shall for the purposes of this Act be substituted in the place of such person so interested.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Mental Treatment Act 1930 (c. 23), s. 20(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 20 excluded by Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20, SIF 85), s. 113, Sch. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/8-9/118/section/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:33:05.062339+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."
}