{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bills-of-sale-act-1878/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bills-of-sale-act-1878/section-23.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/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Repeal of Acts.",
  "text": ". . . Except as is herein expressly mentioned with respect to construction and with respect to renewal of registration, nothing in this Act shall affect any bill of sale executed before the commencement of this Act, and as regards bills of sale so executed the Acts hereby repealed shall continue in force.\nAny renewal after the commencement of this Act of the registration of a bill of sale executed before the commencement of this Act, and registered under the Acts hereby repealed, shall be made under this Act in the same manner as the renewal of a registration made under this Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1894 (c. 56)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "“the Acts hereby repealed” means Bills of Sales Act 1854 (c. 36) and Bills of Sale Act 1866 (c. 96)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/41-42/31/section/23",
    "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."
}