{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-act-1988/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-act-1988/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/3",
  "legislation_title": "Land Registration Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-act-1988",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Short title, commencement and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Land Registration Act 1988.\n(2) This Act shall come into force on such day as the Lord Chancellor may by order made by statutory instrument appoint.\n(3) This Act, except the repeal in Schedule 2 to the Public Records Act 1958, does not extend to Scotland or Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1958 c. 51."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Power of appointment conferred by s. 3(2) fully exercised: 3.12.1990 appointed by S.I. 1990/1359, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/3/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:49:49.457790+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."
}