{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dean-forest-mines-act-1838/section-XV",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/1-2/43",
  "legislation_title": "Dean Forest (Mines) Act 1838",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dean-forest-mines-act-1838",
  "path": "section/XV",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XV",
  "heading": "Quarrymen to be deemed Free Miners for certain Purposes.",
  "text": "All male persons born or hereafter to be born and abiding within the said Hundred, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who shall have worked a year and a day in a stone quarry within the said Forest, shall for the purposes of this Act, so far as relates to having gales or leases of stone quarries within the open lands of the said Forest, but not otherwise, be taken to be Free Miners.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/1-2/43/section/XV",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:43:59.952838+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."
}