{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-drainage-act-1961/section-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-drainage-act-1961/section-46.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/48",
  "legislation_title": "Land Drainage Act 1961",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-drainage-act-1961",
  "path": "section/46",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Power of Agricultural Land Tribunal to authorise drainage work on adjoining land",
  "text": "Where the drainage of any land requires the carrying out of any work in connection with a ditch passing through other land, or the replacement or construction of such a ditch, or the alteration or removal of any drainage -work in connection with such a ditch, the Agricultural Land Tribunal may on the application of the owner or occupier of the first-mentioned land make, if it thinks fit, an order authorising him to carry out for that purpose such work as may be specified in the order and, so far as may be necessary for that purpose, to enter any land so specified.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/48/section/46",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:10:08.989782+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."
}