{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smallholdings-selection-of-tenants-amendment-regulations-1976/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smallholdings-selection-of-tenants-amendment-regulations-1976/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1976/2001",
  "legislation_title": "The Smallholdings (Selection of Tenants) (Amendment) Regulations 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smallholdings-selection-of-tenants-amendment-regulations-1976",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of principal regulations",
  "text": "Regulation 3 of the principal regulations (which lays down requirements as to agricultural experience of prospective tenants) shall be amended by the addition of the following paragraphs:—\n“(3) Where the tenant of a smallholding has died and the smallholdings authority intend to re-let that smallholding, no application for the first letting of that smallholding after the death of the tenant by a person who is not an eligible person in relation to the deceased tenant shall be considered by the smallholdings authority unless every such application from a person who is an eligible person as aforesaid has been considered by that authority and refused.\n(4) For the purposes of the preceding paragraph a person is an eligible person in relation to a deceased tenant of a smallholding if that person is—\n(a) the wife or husband of the deceased tenant;\n(b) a brother or sister of the deceased tenant;\n(c) a child of the deceased tenant;\n(d) any person (not within (b) or (c) above) who, in the case of any marriage to which the deceased tenant was at any time a party, was treated by the deceased tenant as a child of the family in relation to that marriage.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1976/2001/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:14:30.340990+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."
}