{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/documentary-evidence-act-1868/schedule",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/31-32/37",
  "legislation_title": "Documentary Evidence Act 1868",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/documentary-evidence-act-1868",
  "path": "schedule",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": null,
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Column 1\nColumn 2\n———--\n————\nName of Department or Officer.\nNames of Certifying Officers.\n——————\n——————\nThe Treasury.\nAny Commissioner, Secretary, or Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.\nThe Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral.\nAny of the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral, or either of the Secretaries to the said Commissioners.\nSecretaries of State.\nAny Secretary or Under-Secretary of State.\nCommittee of Privy Council for Trade.\nAny member of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, or any Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the said Committee.\n. . .\n. . .\nany office-holder in the Scottish Administration\na member of the staff of the Scottish Administration",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Entry relating to the Poor Law Board repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I Gp. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. inserted (6.5.1999) by S.I. 1999/1042, art. 3, Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. amended by Telecommunications Act 1984 (c. 12, SIF 96), s. 1, Sch. 1 para. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "By S.I. 1986/600 it is provided that the Documentary Evidence Act 1868 shall apply to the Lord President of the Council as if his name were included in the first column of the Schedule to that Act and as if he or any person authorised to act on his behalf were mentioned in the second column of that Schedule, and as if the regulations referred to in that Act included any document issued by the Lord President of the Council"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Sch. amended (E.W.) by Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), ss. 5(5), 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 163, 189(4)–(10), 190, 193(1), Sch. 3 para. 5, Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 57(6), 58"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Sch. amended (E.W.S.) by Electricity Act 1989 (c. 29, SIF 44:1), ss. 1(5), 112(3), Sch. 1 para. 6, Sch. 17 para. 35(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act amended by Education (Schools) Act 1992 (c. 38), ss. 1(6), 5(6), Sch. 1 para. 7(a)(b) which amendment was brought into force (31.8.1992) partly by S.I. 1992/1157, art. 2, Sch. and in force (1.5.1993) so far as then not already in force by S.I. 1993/1190, art. 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Act amended (1.1.1993) by S.I. 1992/3060, reg. 7(6), Sch. 2 para. 6(a)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Sch. amended (E.W. ) (1.8.1993) by 1993 c. 10, ss. 1, 99(1), Sch. 1 para. 3(2).Sch. modified (1.11.1996) by 1996 c. 57 s. 1, 4, Sch. 1 para. 6(a)(b)Sch. modified (27.6.1998) by S.I. 1998/1340, reg. 9(6), Sch. 2 para. 6(a)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Sch. Column 1 amended (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 43, ss 1(6), 154(2), Sch. 1 para. 6(b)."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C9",
      "text": "Sch. Column 2 amended (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 43, ss 1(6),154(2), Sch. 1 para. 6(c)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/31-32/37/schedule",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:58:14.479682+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."
}