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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trusts-of-land-and-appointment-of-trustees-act-1996/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trusts-of-land-and-appointment-of-trustees-act-1996/section-23.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/47",
  "legislation_title": "Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trusts-of-land-and-appointment-of-trustees-act-1996",
  "path": "section/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Other interpretation provisions.",
  "text": "(1) In this Act “purchaser” has the same meaning as in Part I of the Law of Property Act 1925.\n(2) Subject to that, where an expression used in this Act is given a meaning by the Law of Property Act 1925 it has the same meaning as in that Act unless the context otherwise requires.\n(3) In this Act “the court” means—\n(a) the High Court, or\n(b) the county court.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 23(3) substituted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 9 para. 52; S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(c) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1925 c. 20."
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/47/section/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:29:50.698067+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."
}