{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-works-loans-act-1875/section-51",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-works-loans-act-1875/section-51.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/38-39/89",
  "legislation_title": "Public Works Loans Act 1875",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-works-loans-act-1875",
  "path": "section/51",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "Definitions.",
  "text": "In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context,—\nThe expression “person” includes a body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate:\n. . .\nThe expression “financial year” means the year ending the thirty-first day of March:\nThe expression “local loan” means a loan made in pursuance of section 3 of the National Loans Act 1968:\nThe expression “prescribed” means prescribed by the regulations made under this Act ... :\nThe expression “special Act” means any Act under which local loans may be made by the Treasury and for the purposes of sections 18 and 50 of this Act only, any Act relating to any person having power to borrow money from the Treasury as a local loan:\nThe expression “security” includes a mortgage:\nThe expression “mortgage” includes a charge and any instrument in the nature of a mortgage or charge, and in Scotland any heritable security:\nThe expression “conveyance” includes any grant, assignment, transfer, or other disposition or assurance; and the expression “convey” shall be construed accordingly:\nThe expression “rate” means a rate, cess, or assessment the proceeds of which are applicable to public local purposes and leviable on the basis of a valuation of property, and includes any sum which, though obtained in the first instance by a precept, certificate, or other instrument requiring payment from some authority or officer, is or can be ultimately raised out of a rate, as before defined, and the making and levying of a rate includes the issue and enforcement of any such precept, certificate, or instrument as aforesaid, and expressions relating to the making and levy of a rate shall be constured accordingly:\nAny toll, due, rent, imposition, and other sum not being a rate as above defined shall be deemed to be property for the purposes of this Act.\nAll references to a mortgagor or borrower shall, if need be, be deemed to include a reference to the successors heirs executors administrators and assigns of, or other persons claiming through or under such mortgagor or borrower.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Definitions repealed by Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1893 (c. 54)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 51 inserted (25.2.2020) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of Public Works Loan Commissioners) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/176), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 43(3) (with art. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 51 omitted (25.2.2020) by virtue of The Public Bodies (Abolition of Public Works Loan Commissioners) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/176), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 43(2) (with art. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 51 substituted (25.2.2020) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of Public Works Loan Commissioners) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/176), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 43(4) (with art. 9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/38-39/89/section/51",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:47:53.194140+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."
}