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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dean-forest-act-1861/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dean-forest-act-1861/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/24-25/40",
  "legislation_title": "Dean Forest Act 1861",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dean-forest-act-1861",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make further Provision for the Management of Her Majesty’s Forest of Dean, and of the Mines and Quarries therein and in the Hundred of Saint Briavels in the County of Gloucester.\n[22nd July 1861]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Short title given by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977 (c. 18), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Functions of Gaveller now exercisable by Forestry Commissioners: Dean Forest (Mines) Act 1838 (c. 43), s. 13 and S.R. & O. 1924/386 (Rev. V, p. 443: 1924, p. 454), art. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Functions of Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues under this Act now exercisable by Foresty Commissioners: S.R. & O. 1924/386 (Rev. V, p. 443: 1924, p. 454), art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Preamble (which recites Dean Forest (Mines) Act 1838 (c. 43)) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969 (c. 52), Sch. Pt. VII"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/24-25/40/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:10:14.776179+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."
}