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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/settled-land-act-1925/section-41",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/15-16/18",
  "legislation_title": "Settled Land Act 1925",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/settled-land-act-1925",
  "path": "section/41",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "41",
  "heading": "Power to lease for ordinary or building or mining or forestry purposes.",
  "text": "A tenant for life may lease the settled land, or any part thereof, or any easement, right, or privilege of any kind over or in relation to the land, for any purpose whatever, whether involving waste or not, for any term not exceeding—\n(i) In case of a building lease, nine hundred and ninety-nine years;\n(ii) In case of a mining lease, one hundred years;\n(iii) In case of a forestry lease, nine hundred and ninety-nine years;\n(iv) In case of any other lease, fifty years.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/15-16/18/section/41",
    "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."
  }
}