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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/capital-punishment-amendment-act-1868-repealed/section-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/31-32/24",
  "legislation_title": "Capital Punishment Amendment Act 1868 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/capital-punishment-amendment-act-1868-repealed",
  "path": "section/3",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Sheriff, &c., to be present. Justices may be present, and other persons may be admitted.",
  "text": "The sheriff charged with the execution, and the gaoler, chaplain, and surgeon of the prison, and such other officers of the prison as the sheriff requires, shall be present at the execution.\nAny justice of the peace for the county, borough, or other jurisdiction to which the prison belongs, and such relatives of the prisoner or other persons as it seems to the sheriff or the visiting justices of the prison proper to admit within the prison for the purpose, may also be present at the execution.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/31-32/24/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:58:24.165841+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."
}