{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-colonial-jurisdiction-act-1874/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-colonial-jurisdiction-act-1874/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/37-38/27",
  "legislation_title": "Courts (Colonial) Jurisdiction Act 1874",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-colonial-jurisdiction-act-1874",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Definition of term “colony.”",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Act,\nThe term “colony” shall not include any places within the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man The Channel Islands, . . . but shall include any plantation, territory, or settlement situate elsewhere within Her Majesty’s dominions, and subject to the same local government; and for the purposes of this Act, all plantations, territories, and settlements under a central legislature shall be deemed to be one colony under the same local government.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.R. & O. 1937/230 (Rev. X, p. 545: 1937, p. 963), Sch. Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Burma Independence Act 1947 (11 & 12 Geo. 6 c. 3), s. 5, Sch. 2 Pt. I and Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976 (c. 16), Sch. 1 Pt. VII"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/37-38/27/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:49:54.805039+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."
}