{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smallholdings-contributions-towards-losses-regulations-1970/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smallholdings-contributions-towards-losses-regulations-1970/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1970/1051",
  "legislation_title": "The Smallholdings (Contributions Towards Losses) Regulations 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smallholdings-contributions-towards-losses-regulations-1970",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) Except in so far as the context otherwise requires, any reference in these regulations to a regulation or a Schedule bearing a number is a reference to the regulation or Schedule bearing that number in these regulations.\n(2) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the Agriculture Act 1970;\n“the Act of 1926” means the Small Holdings and Allotments Act 1926;\n“the Act of 1931” means the Agricultural Land (Utilisation) Act 1931;\n“the Act of 1947” means the Agriculture Act 1947;\n“contribution” means an annual contribution payable by the Minister to a relevant authority towards their losses in respect of smallholdings land or cottage holdings land and, in relation to a contribution adjusted pursuant to regulation 5, means the contribution as so adjusted;\n“cottage holdings authority” means a county council or a county borough council who immediately before the commencement of Part III of the Act held land for the purposes of cottage holdings or the Greater London Council;\n“cottage holdings land” means land held by a cottage holdings authority immediately before the commencement of Part III of the Act for the purposes of cottage holdings;\n“the Minister” means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and includes the Minister by his former style and title of the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and “the appropriate Minister” means, in relation to England, except Monmouthshire, the Minister and, in relation to Wales, including Monmouthshire, the Minister and the Secretary of State for Wales acting jointly;\n“relevant authority”, in relation to a contribution, means the small holdings authority or the cottage holdings authority to whom it is payable;\n“smallholdings land” means any land held by a smallholdings authority immediately before the commencement of Part III of the Act for the purposes of smallholdings.\n(3) Except in so far as the context otherwise requires any reference in these regulations to any enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended, extended or applied by any other enactment.\n(4) The Interpretation Act 1889 applies for the interpretation of these regulations as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1970/1051/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:57:21.463161+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."
}