{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-clauses-consolidation-act-1845/section-156",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-clauses-consolidation-act-1845/section-156.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/8-9/16",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Clauses Consolidation Act 1845",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-clauses-consolidation-act-1845",
  "path": "section/156",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "156",
  "heading": "Transient offenders.",
  "text": "It shall be lawful for any officer or agent of the company...to seize and detain any person who shall have committed any offence against the provisions of this or the special Act, or any Act incorporated therewith, and whose name and residence shall be unknown to such officer or agent, and convey him, with all convenient despatch, before some justice, without any warrant or other authority than this or the special Act; and such justice shall proceed with all convenient despatch to the hearing and determining of the complaint against such offender.",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 156 repealed (1.3.2007) by The Police and Criminal Evidence (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/288), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 3, 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/8-9/16/section/156",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:34:21.564980+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."
}