{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/interpretation-act-1978/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/30",
  "legislation_title": "Interpretation Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/interpretation-act-1978",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/5",
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  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following definitions shall be treated as included in Schedule 1 for the purposes specified in this paragraph—\n(a) in any Act passed before 1st April 1974, a reference to England includes Berwick upon Tweed and Monmouthshire and, in the case of an Act passed before the Welsh Language Act 1967, Wales;\n(b) in any Act passed before the commencement of this Act and after the year 1850, “land” includes messuages, tenements and hereditaments, houses and buildings of any tenure;\n(c) in any Act passed before the commencement of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975, “the Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland) Acts” means Part II of that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1967 c. 66."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1975 c. 21."
    }
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:22:53.270208+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."
}