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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-suits-scotland-act-1857/section-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/20-21/44",
  "legislation_title": "Crown Suits (Scotland) Act 1857",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-suits-scotland-act-1857",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Meaning of “public department.”",
  "text": "(1) The expression “public department” shall include the Treasury, the Ministry of Defence,. . . . , the Board of Inland Revenue, the Commissioners of Customs and Excise, the Crown Estate Commissioners, the Commissioners of Works, the Committee of Her Majesty’s Privy Council appointed for the consideration of matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations, and all the like public departments, bodies, or boards, and all and every officer and officers, person and persons acting on the behalf or in the interest of or entitled at the date of the passing of this Act to sue on the behalf or in the interest of any such public department.\n(2) But the expression “public department” does not include Crown Estate Scotland.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 4(1): s. 4 renumbered as s. 4(1) (S.) (16.2.2017) by The Crown Estate Scotland (Interim Management) Order 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/36), arts. 1(1), 22(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Defence (Transfer of Functions) Act 1964 (c. 15), s. 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 11 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Customs and Excise Act 1952 (c. 44), Sch. 10 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of S.R & O.1924/1370 (Rev. V, p. 443: 1924, p. 228), art. 1, Crown Estate Act 1956 (c. 73), s. 1(7) and Crown Estate Act 1961 (c. 55), Sch. 2 para. 4(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 4(2) inserted (S.) (16.2.2017) by The Crown Estate Scotland (Interim Management) Order 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/36), arts. 1(1), 22(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(2) substituted (S.) (1.4.2020) by Scottish Crown Estate Act 2019 (asp 1), s. 46(2), sch. 1 para. 1; S.S.I. 2020/77, reg. 2(1), sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Functions of Commissioners of Works now exercisable by Secretary of State: S. R & O. 1945/991 9 Rev. XV, p. 232; 1945 I, p. 1414), art. 2 and S.I.1970/1681, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 4 extended by Employment Protection Act 1975 (c. 71), s. 1 Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 11(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/20-21/44/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:15:48.629400+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."
}