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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/currency-act-1982/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/currency-act-1982/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1982/3",
  "legislation_title": "Currency Act 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/currency-act-1982",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Denominations of money.",
  "text": "(1) The denominations of money in the currency of the United Kingdom shall be the pound sterling and the penny or new penny, being one hundredth part of a pound sterling.\n(2) Section 1(1) of the Decimal Currency Act 1967 (which is superseded by subsection (1) above) is hereby repealed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1967 c. 47."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of s. 1(2) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/3/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:25:22.609155+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}