{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/small-holdings-act-1892/section-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/small-holdings-act-1892/section-20.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/55-56/31",
  "legislation_title": "Small Holdings Act 1892",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/small-holdings-act-1892",
  "path": "section/20",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Definitions.",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Act:—\nThe expression “agriculture” and “cultivation” shall include horticulture and the use of land for any purpose of husbandry, inclusive of the keeping or breeding of live stock, poultry or bees, and the growth of fruit, vegetables, and the like:\nThe expression “county” shall mean the area under the authority of a county council:\nThe expression “county council” shall include the council of a county borough and the expression “electoral division” in its application to a county borough divided into wards shall mean ward, and in its application to a county borough the expression “county rate” shall mean the borough rate or borough fund:\nThe expression “county elector” shall include “burgess.”\nIn this Act, and in the enactments incorporated with this Act, the expression “land” shall include any right or easement in or over land.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/55-56/31/section/20",
    "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."
}