{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/settled-land-act-1925/section-116",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/settled-land-act-1925/section-116.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/15-16/18",
  "legislation_title": "Settled Land Act 1925",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/settled-land-act-1925",
  "path": "section/116",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "116",
  "heading": "Filing of certificates, &c. at the Ministry of Agriculture.",
  "text": "(1) Every certificate and report approved and made by the Secretary of State under this Act shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State.\n(2) An office copy of any certificate or report so filed shall be delivered out of such office to any person requiring the same, on payment of the proper fee, and shall be sufficient evidence of the certificate or report whereof it purports to be a copy.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 116(1) substituted (27.3.2002) by S.I. 2002/794, art. 5(1), Sch. 1 para. 5(2) (with arts. 5(3), 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 116(1) substituted (27.3.2002) by S.I. 2002/794, art. 5(1), Sch. 1 para. 5(3) (with arts. 5(3), 6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/15-16/18/section/116",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:43:10.879442+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."
}