{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/small-landholders-and-agricultural-holdings-scotland-act-1931/section-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/small-landholders-and-agricultural-holdings-scotland-act-1931/section-26.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/21-22/44",
  "legislation_title": "Small Landholders And Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1931",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/small-landholders-and-agricultural-holdings-scotland-act-1931",
  "path": "section/26",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Construction.",
  "text": "(1) In this Part of this Act—\n“the Act of 1886” means the Crofters Holdings (Scotland) Act, 1886;\n“the Act of 1911” means the Small Landholders (Scotland) Act, 1911;\n“the Act of 1919” means the Land Settlement (Scotland) Act, 1919;\n“the Landholders Acts” means the Small Landholders (Scotland) Acts, 1886 to 1919, and this Part of this Act.\n(2) This Part of this Act may be cited as the Small Landholders (Scotland) Act, 1931, and shall be construed as one with the Small Landholders (Scotland) Acts, 1886 to 1919, and those Acts and this Part of this Act may be cited together as the Small Landholders (Scotland) Acts, 1886 to 1931.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 26(2) substituted by Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1949 (c. 75), Sch. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1886 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1911 c. 49."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1919 c. 97."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "asp/2025/15",
      "affecting_title": "Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/21-22/44/section/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:38:17.541163+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."
}