{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-sites-act-1849/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-sites-act-1849/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/12-13/49",
  "legislation_title": "School Sites Act 1849",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-sites-act-1849",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Interpretation clause.",
  "text": "Except in cases where there shall be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction, words occurring in this Act and the above-recited Acts importing the singular number shall include the plural number, and words importing the plural number shall include the singular number; and words importing the masculine gender only shall include females; and the word “land” shall include messuages, houses, lands, tenements, hereditaments, and heritages, of every tenure; and the word “lease” shall include an under-lease, agreement for a lease, and missive of lease; and the word “owner” shall include any person or corporation enabled under the provisions of the Schools Sites Act 1841, to convey lands for the purposes thereof.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1841 c. 38."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/12-13/49/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:27:45.001955+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."
}