{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/appellate-jurisdiction-act-1887-repealed/section-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/50-51/70",
  "legislation_title": "Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1887 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/appellate-jurisdiction-act-1887-repealed",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Lord of Appeal may take his seat during prorogation.",
  "text": ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nNotwithstanding anything in the eighth section of the said Act contained, every Lord of Appeal shall be empowered to take his seat and the oaths at any such sitting of the House of Lords during prorogation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Recital omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1908 (c. 49)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1876 c. 59"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "\"The said Act\" means the Appellate Jurisdiction Act"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X2",
      "text": "\"any such sitting\" means any sitting for hearing and determining appeals"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/50-51/70/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:36:21.160272+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."
}