{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/settled-land-act-1925/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/settled-land-act-1925/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/15-16/18",
  "legislation_title": "Settled Land Act 1925",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/settled-land-act-1925",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Duration of settlements.",
  "text": "Land which has been subject to a settlement which is a settlement for the purposes of this Act shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to remain and be settled land, and the settlement shall be deemed to be a subsisting settlement for the purposes of this Act so long as—\n(a) any limitation, charge, or power of charging under the settlement subsists, or is capable of being exercised; or\n(b) the person who, if of full age, would be entitled as beneficial owner to have that land vested in him for a legal estate is an infant.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 3 substituted (1.1.1997) by 1996 c. 47, s. 25(1), Sch. 3 para. 2(3)(with ss. 24(2), 25(4)(5)); S.I. 1996/2974, art.2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/15-16/18/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:43:10.879442+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}