{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bills-of-sale-act-1878/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bills-of-sale-act-1878/section-17.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": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Affidavits.",
  "text": "Every affidavit required by or for the purposes of this Act may be sworn before a master of any division of the High Court of Justice, or before any commissioner empowered to take affidavits in the Senior Courts.\n. . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 17 substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), s. 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 4; S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Perjury Act 1911 (c. 6), Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/41-42/31/section/17",
    "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."
}