{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/documentary-evidence-act-1882/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/documentary-evidence-act-1882/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/45-46/9",
  "legislation_title": "Documentary Evidence Act 1882",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/documentary-evidence-act-1882",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Application of Act to Ireland.",
  "text": "The Documentary Evidence Act 1868, as amended by this Act, shall apply to proclamations, orders, and regulations issued by the Lord Lieutenant, either alone or acting with the advice of the Privy Council in Ireland, as fully as it applies to proclamations, orders, and regulations issued by Her Majesty.\nIn the same Act, the term “the Privy Council” shall include the Privy Council in Ireland, or any committee thereof.\nIn the same Act, and in this Act, the term “the Government Printer” shall include any printer to Her Majesty in Ireland and any printer printing in Ireland under the superintendence or authority of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1868 c. 37."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "References to Privy Council in Ireland to be construed as references to Privy Council of Northern Ireland: Irish Free State (Consequential Provisions) Act 1922 (Session 2) (13 Geo. 5 Sess. 2 c. 2), Sch. 1 para. 2(1); no further appointments to be made to Privy Council: Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), s. 32(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "References to Government Printer to be construed as references to officer appointed to print the Acts of Parliament of Northern Ireland: S.R. & O. 1922/183 (Rev. XVI, p. 991: 1922, p. 718), art. 39"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "References to Ireland to be construed as exclusive of Republic of Ireland: S.R. & O. 1923/405 (Rev. X, p. 298: 1923, p. 400), art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Reference to the Lord Lieutenant to be construed as reference to the Secretary of State: Irish Free State (Consequential Provisions) Act 1922 (Session 2) (13 Geo. 5 Sess. 2 c. 2), Sch. 1 para. 1(1) and Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), Sch. 5 para. 4(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/45-46/9/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:42:06.140982+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."
}