{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-forest-act-1949/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-forest-act-1949/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/69",
  "legislation_title": "New Forest Act 1949",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-forest-act-1949",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Qualification of elective verderers.",
  "text": "(1) The qualification to be an elective verderer shall be the occupation of not less than 0.40 hectare of land to which are attached rights of common of pasture over the Forest.\n(2) An elective verderer who during his term of office ceases to be in occupation of land as aforesaid shall not thereby be disqualified, as respects that term of office, if the verderers resolve that it is expedient that he should continue in office.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.I. 1979/836, Sch. para. 5(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/69/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:20:15.288250+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}