{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/atomic-energy-authority-act-1959/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/atomic-energy-authority-act-1959/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/5",
  "legislation_title": "Atomic Energy Authority Act 1959",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/atomic-energy-authority-act-1959",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Increase of maximum number of members of Authority.",
  "text": "In subsection (2) of section one of the Atomic Energy Authority Act, 1954 (which provides that the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority shall consist of a chairman and not less than seven nor more than ten other members) for the word “ten” there shall be substituted the word “fifteen”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "2 & 3 Eliz. 2. c. 32."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of s. 1 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/5/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:12:26.809607+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."
}