{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/small-holdings-act-1892/section-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/small-holdings-act-1892/section-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/55-56/31",
  "legislation_title": "Small Holdings Act 1892",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/small-holdings-act-1892",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Restrictions on powers of council.",
  "text": "(1) A county council shall not acquire land under this Act save at such price that, in the opinion of the council, all expenses incurred by the council in relation to the land will be recouped out of the purchase money for the land sold by the council, or in the case of land let out of the rent, and shall fix the purchase money or rent at such reasonable amount as will, in their opinion, guard them against loss.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 18(2), 19(2)–(5), 21(8) repealed by Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947 (c. 43), s. 381, Sch. 14"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/55-56/31/section/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:32:13.680542+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."
}