{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weeds-act-1959/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weeds-act-1959/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/7-8/54",
  "legislation_title": "Weeds Act 1959",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weeds-act-1959",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Power to require occupier to prevent spreading of injurious weeds.",
  "text": "(1) Where the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (in this Act referred to as “the Minister”) is satisfied that there are injurious weeds to which this Act applies growing upon any land he may serve upon the occupier of the land a notice in writing requiring him, within the time specified in the notice, to take such action as may be necessary to prevent the weeds from spreading.\n(2) This Act applies to the following injurious weeds, that is to say—\nspear thistle (cirsium vulgare), (Savi) Ten.\ncreeping or field thistle (cirsium arvense (L.) Scop.),\ncurled dock (rumex crispus L.),\nbroad-leaved dock (rumex obtusifolius L.), and\nragwort (senecio jacobaea L.);\nand to such additional injurious weeds as may be prescribed by the Minister by regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/7-8/54/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:11:50.105348+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."
}