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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poor-allotments-management-act-1873-repealed-5111993/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poor-allotments-management-act-1873-repealed-5111993/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/36-37/19",
  "legislation_title": "Poor Allotments Management Act 1873 (repealed 5.11.1993)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poor-allotments-management-act-1873-repealed-5111993",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Appointment of committees in certain cases for management of allotments.",
  "text": "A committee of not more than twelve nor less than six members of their own body (the number to be from time to time fixed by the appointing body) shall be appointed annually by the following authorities; that is to say,\n(1) By the allotment trustees, or a majority of votes of the allotment trustees present and voting at a meeting summoned as in this Act provided, where the number of allotment trustees for the time being exceeds twenty; and\n(2) By the vestry of any parish empowered to make an order in respect of poor allotments in pursuance of the Allotments Act, 1832, where the number of persons for the time being entitled to attend such vestry exceeds twenty.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1832 c. 42."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/36-37/19/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:51:14.134019+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."
}