{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smallholdings-full-time-employment-regulations-1970/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smallholdings-full-time-employment-regulations-1970/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1970/1050",
  "legislation_title": "The Smallholdings (Full-Time Employment) Regulations 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smallholdings-full-time-employment-regulations-1970",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Estimate of full-time employment capability",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 39(2) of the Act (which relates to a holding which shall be treated as falling within the upper limit for a small-holding), the number of men for whom a holding is capable, when farmed under reasonably skilled management, of providing full-time employment shall be estimated by reference to the standard labour requirements of the holding in accordance with the Schedule to these regulations, it being assumed that a system of husbandry suitable for the district is followed and that the greater part of the feeding stuffs required by any livestock kept on the holding is grown there.\n(2) A holding shall be treated as being capable of providing full-time employment for not more than two men (including the person to whom it is let) with or without additional part-time employment for another man if its standard labour requirements are less than 900 standard man-days in aggregate in a year on average.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1970/1050/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:57:22.177697+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."
}