{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/small-landholders-and-agricultural-holdings-scotland-act-1931/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/small-landholders-and-agricultural-holdings-scotland-act-1931/section-8.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/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendment of provisions as to resumption of holdings.",
  "text": "(1) The occupation by a landlord, for the purpose of personally residing thereon, of a holding being his only landed estate, shall not be a reasonable purpose in respect of which the Land Court may authorise resumption by the landlord of a holding.\n(2) The words in section nineteen of the Act of 1911, from “the feuing,” to “estate or,” and the word “respectively,” are hereby repealed, and the reference in paragraph (15) of section thirty-two of the said Act to the said section nineteen shall be construed accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 8 restricted by Crofters (Scotland) Act 1955 (3 & 4 Eliz. 2 c. 21), s. 38(3), Sch. 6 Pt. I"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/21-22/44/section/8",
    "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."
}