{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/removal-terms-scotland-act-1886/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/removal-terms-scotland-act-1886/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/49-50/50",
  "legislation_title": "Removal Terms (Scotland) Act 1886",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/removal-terms-scotland-act-1886",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend the Law relating to the Terms of Removal from Houses in Scotland.\n[25th June 1886]\nWhereas in many counties and burghs in Scotland a custom exists whereby for the purpose of a tenant’s entry to or removal from a house a period beyond the date of the legal term of entry or removal is allowed within which such entry or removal may take place:\nAnd whereas the period so allowed is not uniform but varies according to local usage:\nAnd whereas such want of uniformity is productive of great inconvenience, and it is expedient that the terms for such entry and removal should be uniform:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act amended by Removal Terms (Scotland) Act 1886 (Amendment) Act 1890 (c. 36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/49-50/50/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:37:15.906719+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."
}