{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colonial-affidavits-act-1859/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colonial-affidavits-act-1859/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/22-23/12",
  "legislation_title": "Colonial Affidavits Act 1859",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colonial-affidavits-act-1859",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Power to Colonial Legislatures to repeal, alter, or amend provisions of recited Acts so far as applicable to such possessions.",
  "text": "It shall be lawful for the legislature or other legislative authority of any of Her Majesty’s possessions abroad to which any of the provisions contained in the said first-recited Act, or in the fifteenth or seventeenth section of the said secondly-recited Act, shall apply, to repeal,alter, or amend all or any of the provisions, so far as applicable to such possession, in like manner and subject to the same conditions as if the same had been originally enacted by such legislature or legislative authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The first and secondly recited Acts are the New South Wales (Debts) Act 1813 (c. 15) and Statutory Declarations Act 1835 (c. 62) respectively"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/22-23/12/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:13:37.344218+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."
}