{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/markets-and-fairs-clauses-act-1847/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/markets-and-fairs-clauses-act-1847/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/10-11/14",
  "legislation_title": "Markets And Fairs Clauses Act 1847",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/markets-and-fairs-clauses-act-1847",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretations in this and the special Act. Number: Gender: “Person:” “Lands:” “Lease:” “The market or fair:” “Cart:” “Driver:” “Cattle:” “Collector:” “Month:” “Justice:” “Two justices:” “Sheriff:”",
  "text": "The following words and expressions in both this and the special Act, and any Act incorporated therewith, shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction; (that is to say,)\nWords importing the singular number shall include the plural number, and words importing the plural number shall include also the singular number:\nWords importing the masculine gender shall include females:\nThe word “person” shall include a corporation, whether aggregate or sole:\nThe word “lands” shall include messuages, lands, tenements and hereditaments, or heritages, of any tenure:\nThe word “lease” shall include a missive of and an agreement for a lease:\nThe expression “the market or fair” shall mean the market or fair, and the works connected therewith, by the special Act authorized to be constructed or regulated:\nThe word “cart” shall include waggon, and also any carriage used wholly or chiefly for the conveyance of goods:\nThe word “driver” shall include the carter or other person having the care of any cart:\nThe word “cattle” shall include horse, ass, mule, ram, ewe, wether, lamb, goat, kid, or swine:\nThe expression “the collector” shall mean the person appointed by the undertakers to collect the stallages, rents, or tolls authorized by the special Act, shall include the assistants of the collector:\nThe word “month” shall mean calendar month:\n. . .\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n. . .\nThe word “justice” shall mean justice of the peace acting for the place where the matter requiring the cognizance of any such justice arises; and if such matter arise in respect of lands situated not wholly in any one jurisdiction, shall mean a justice acting for the place where any part of such lands shall be situated; and where any matter is authorized or required to be done by two justices, the expression “two justices” shall be understood to mean two or more justices assembled and acting together:\nThe word “sheriff” shall mean the sheriff principal of the sheriffdom in Scotland in which the matter submitted to the cognizance of the sheriff arises, and shall include the sheriffs of such sheriff principal\n. . ..",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 3 definition of \"superior courts\" repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. XIV Group 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Definition of “oath” repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1981 (c. 19), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. VIII"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "In s. 3 definitions of “county” and “quarter sessions” repealed (N.I.) by Statute Law Revision (Northern Ireland) Act 1980 (c. 59), s. 1, Sch. Pt. I; definitions of \"county\" and \"quarter sessions\" wholly repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. XIV Group1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 3 repealed (E.W.S.) (1.4.2005) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), s. 110(1), Sch. 8 para. 27(1), Sch. 10; S.I. 2005/910, art. 3(y)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971 (c. 58), s. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reference to Ireland to be construed as exclusive of Republic of Ireland: S.R. & O. 1923/405 (Rev. X, p. 298: 1923, p. 400), art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/14/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:31:17.701446+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."
}