{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-drainage-election-of-internal-drainage-boards-amendment-regulations-1977/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-drainage-election-of-internal-drainage-boards-amendment-regulations-1977/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1977/366",
  "legislation_title": "The Land Drainage (Election of Internal Drainage Boards) (Amendment) Regulations 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-drainage-election-of-internal-drainage-boards-amendment-regulations-1977",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these regulations “the Principal Regulations” means the Land Drainage (Election of Drainage Boards) Regulations 1938, as amended.\n(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of these regulations as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament and as if these regulations and the regulations hereby revoked were Acts of Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "(Rev. XI, p. 857: 1938 I, p. 1631)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1965/444 (1965 I, p. 1197)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/366/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:06:14.238122+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."
}