{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defence-act-1860/section-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defence-act-1860/section-40.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/23-24/112",
  "legislation_title": "Defence Act 1860",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defence-act-1860",
  "path": "section/40",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Power to divert highways, &c.",
  "text": "It shall be lawful for the said Secretary of State, without any writ being issued or other legal proceeding being adopted, to stop up or divert or alter the level of any highway, way, sewer, drain, or pipe over, through, under, or adjoining any lands comprised in any such declaration as aforesaid; he, if necessary, previously making, opening, or laying down another good and sufficient way, sewer, drain, or pipe, in lieu of that stopped up or diverted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/23-24/112/section/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:11:16.382088+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."
}