{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commissioners-clauses-act-1847/section-61",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commissioners-clauses-act-1847/section-61.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/10-11/16",
  "legislation_title": "Commissioners Clauses Act 1847",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commissioners-clauses-act-1847",
  "path": "section/61",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Actions or suits to be brought in the name of any two commissioners or their clerk.",
  "text": "In all actions and suits in respect of any matter or thing relating to the execution of this or the special Act, to be brought by or against the commissioners, it shall be sufficient, where such commissioners are not a body corporate, to state the names of any two of the commissioners, or the name of their clerk, as the party, plaintiff or defendant, representing the commissioners in any such action or suit, and no such action or suit shall abate or be discontinued, or required to be transferred, by reason of the death of any such commissioner, or by his ceasing to be a commissioner, or by the death, suspension, or removal of such clerk.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 36-92 incorporated (E.W.S.) (21.5.2010) by The Newlyn Pier and Harbour Revision (Constitution) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1462), arts. 1(1), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 58-64 incorporated (with modifications) (E.W.S.) (1.11.2015) by The Great Yarmouth Port Authority (Constitution) Harbour Revision Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1395), arts. 1(3), 2, 3 (with Sch. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/16/section/61",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:31:16.289299+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."
}