{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/war-damage-to-land-scotland-act-1939/section-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/war-damage-to-land-scotland-act-1939/section-11.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/2-3/80",
  "legislation_title": "War Damage to Land (Scotland) Act 1939",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/war-damage-to-land-scotland-act-1939",
  "path": "section/11",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "In this Act—\nthe expression “disposition” includes any deed or instrument whereby any land or any estate or interest in land is conveyed or created, other than a lease or a heritable security;\nthe expression “heritable security” has the like meaning as in the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1924, except that it includes a security constituted by ex facie absolute disposition but does not include a real burden ad factum proestandum;\nthe expression “war damage” means damage caused by, or in repelling, enemy action, or by measures taken to avoid the spreading of the consequences of damage caused by, or in repelling, enemy action.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1924 c. 27."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Definition of “war damage” amended by War Damage to Land (Scotland) Act 1941 (c. 40), s. 7(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/2-3/80/section/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:32:06.890255+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."
}