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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bills-of-sale-act-1878/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bills-of-sale-act-1878/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/41-42/31",
  "legislation_title": "Bills of Sale Act 1878",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bills-of-sale-act-1878",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to consolidate and amend the Law for preventing Frauds upon Creditors by secret Bills of Sale of Personal Chattels.\n[22nd July 1878]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act repealed as to enactments inconsistent with Bills of Sale Act (1878) Amendment Act 1882 (c. 43), s. 15 of that Act"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act excluded by Bills of Sale Act 1890 (c. 53), Agricultural Credits Act 1928 (c. 43), ss. 8(1), 14(1), Agricultural Marketing Act 1958 (c. 47), s. 15(5) and S.I. 1972/1268"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1894 (c. 56)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act excluded (23.3.2015) by The International Interests in Aircraft Equipment (Cape Town Convention) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/912), reg. 2, Sch. 5 para. 6 (with reg. 51)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:45:32.008966+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."
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