{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-smallholdings-order-1974/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-smallholdings-order-1974/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1974/396",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Smallholdings) Order 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-smallholdings-order-1974",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Miscellaneous provisions as to the Agriculture Act 1970",
  "text": "In the Act of 1970—\n(1) in section 52(2), in paragraph (a), for the words “which immediately before the commencement of this Part of this Act is held by the authority for the purposes of smallholdings” there shall be substituted the words “which, in relation to the Greater London Council, immediately before the commencement of this Part of this Act was held by that Council for the purposes of smallholdings and, in relation to any other smallholdings authority, is held by them for those purposes, being land which immediately before the commencement of this Part of this Act was held by the council of a county or county borough (as then constituted and in existence) for those purposes and under the Local Government Act 1972 was transferred to such smallholdings authority.”;\n(2) in section 60(2), (3) and (4) (provisions as to cottage holdings) any reference to section 52(2) of the Act of 1970 shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended or modified by or under any other enactment including this order;\n(3) in section 60(2), for the words “which immediately before the commencement of this Part of this Act is held by any such council for the purposes of cottage holdings” there shall be substituted the words “which, in relation to the Greater London Council, immediately before the commencement of this Part of this Act was held by that Council for the purpose of cottage holdings and, in relation to a county council, is land held by them for those purposes, being land which immediately before the commencement of this Part of this Act was held by the council of a county or county borough (as then constituted and in existence) for those purposes and under the Local Government Act 1972 was transferred to that county council”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1974/396/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:46:34.583362+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."
}