{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defence-act-1860/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defence-act-1860/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/23-24/112",
  "legislation_title": "Defence Act 1860",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defence-act-1860",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Clerks of the peace, &c., to receive and hold copies so deposited as under 7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 83.",
  "text": "All clerks of the peace, parish clerks, and clerks of unions shall receive and retain the copies deposited with them as aforesaid, and permit all persons interested to inspect the same, and make extracts or copies therefrom, in the like manner, and upon the like terms, and under the like penalty for default, as provided by the Parliamentary Documents Deposit Act, 1837, with respect to plans directed to be so deposited by the standing orders of either House of Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 5 amended as to clerks of the peace and clerks of unions (N.I.) by County Officers and Courts (Ireland) Act 1877 (c. 56), s. 8 and Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 (c. 37), s. 85(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/23-24/112/section/5",
    "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."
}