{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/small-holdings-and-allotments-act-1908/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/small-holdings-and-allotments-act-1908/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw7/8/36",
  "legislation_title": "Small Holdings and Allotments Act 1908",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/small-holdings-and-allotments-act-1908",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to consolidate the enactments with respect to small holdings and allotments in England and Wales.\n[1st August 1908]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act repealed as to small holdings by Agriculture Act 1947 (c. 48), s. 67(2) and Agriculture Act 1970 (c. 40), s. 65(1), Sch. 5 Pt. III"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act applied with modification by Agricultural Land (Utilisation) Act 1931 (c. 41); s. 12(1); restricted by Allotments Act 1950 (c. 31), s. 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Certain provisions of this Act as to compensation excluded by Opencast Coal Act 1958 (c. 69), s. 41, Sch. 8 para. 3(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Functions of Board (Board of Agriculture and Fisheries) now exercisable by Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Act 1919 (c. 91), s. 1(1) and S.I. 1955/554 (1955 I, p. 1200)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Functions of Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food as to allotments now exercisable by Secretary of State: S.I. 1965/143, 1967/156 and 1970/1681"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Functions of Local Government Board under this Act now exercisable by Secretary of State: Ministry of Health Act 1919 (c. 21), s. 3(1)(a), S.I. 1951/753, 1900 (1951 I, pp. 1354, 1347), 1965/319 and 1970/1681"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Functions of Ecclesiastical Commissioners now exercisable by Church Commissioners: Church Commissioners Measures 1947 (No. 2), s. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C9",
      "text": "Certain functions of Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food transferred by S.I. 1978/272, art. 2Functions of a Minister of the Crown transferred to the National Assembly for Wales (W.) (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at 1.1.1909 by s. 63(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/8/36/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:21:20.127818+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."
}