{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-settlement-facilities-act-1919/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-settlement-facilities-act-1919/section-19.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/9-10/59",
  "legislation_title": "Land Settlement (Facilities) Act 1919",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-settlement-facilities-act-1919",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Power of entry to inspect land.",
  "text": "A council, with a view to ascertaining whether any land is suitable for any purpose for which the council has power to acquire land under the principal Act, may by writing in that behalf authorise any person (upon production, if so required, or his authority), to enter and inspect the land specified in the authority, and anyone who obstructs or impedes any person acting under and in accordance with any such authority shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Law Act 1977 (c.45, SIF 39:1), s. 31(5)(6) and Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/9-10/59/section/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:58:59.332240+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."
}