{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-damage-act-1971/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-damage-act-1971/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/48",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Damage Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-damage-act-1971",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Jurisdiction of magistrates’ courts.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) No rule of law ousting the jurisdiction of magistrates’ courts to try offences where a dispute of title to property is involved shall preclude magistrates’ courts from trying offences under this Act, or any other offences of destroying or damaging property.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 7(1), 8 repealed by Criminal Justice Act 1972 (c. 71), Sch. 6 Pt. II"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/48/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:49:52.020588+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."
}