{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/small-holdings-and-allotments-act-1908/section-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/small-holdings-and-allotments-act-1908/section-27.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": "section/27",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Provisions as to letting of allotments.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) An allotment shall not be sublet except with the consent of the council.\n(5) If at any time an allotment cannot be let in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder, the same may be let to any person whatever at the best annual rent which can be obtained for the same, without any premium . . ., and on such terms as may enable possession thereof to be resumed within a period not exceeding twelve months if it should at any time be required to be let under the provisions aforesaid.\n(6) A council shall have the same power of letting one or more allotments to persons working on a co-operative system or of letting or selling to an association formed for the purposes of creating or promoting the creation of allotments as may be exercised as respects small holdings by a county council.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 25(3), 27(1) repealed by Allotments Act 1922 (c. 51), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Ss. 23(3), 27(2), 31, 32(3), 41(3) repealed by Land Settlement (Facilities) Act 1919 (c. 59), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 27(3) repealed by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70, SIF 81:1), ss. 272(1), 273(1), Sch. 30"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words added by Land Settlement (Facilities) Act 1919 (c. 59), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 27(5) repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s.1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. III"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words inserted by Land Settlement(Facilities) Act 1919 (c. 59), Sch.2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/8/36/section/27",
    "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."
}