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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bank-charter-act-1844/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bank-charter-act-1844/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/7-8/32",
  "legislation_title": "Bank Charter Act 1844",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bank-charter-act-1844",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Bank to establish a separate department for the issue of notes.",
  "text": "The issue of promissory notes of the governor and company of the Bank of England, payable on demand, shall be separated and thenceforth kept wholly distinct from the general banking business of the said governor and company; and the business of and relating to such issue shall be thenceforth conducted and carried on by the said governor and company in a separate department, to be called “the Issue Department of the Bank of England,” . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973 (c. 39), Sch. 1 Pt. IV"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/7-8/32/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:35:34.304970+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."
}