{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953.json",
  "id": "ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/47",
  "title": "Emergency Laws (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1953",
  "short_title": "Emergency Laws (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1953",
  "long_title": "An Act to make permanent provision with respect to certain matters with respect to which temporary provision has hitherto been made by or under Defence Regulations; to suspend the operation of subsection (1) of section thirty-one of the Road Traffic Act 1934; to remove certain limitations on the exercise of the powers conferred on the court by virtue of the Settled Land and Trustee Acts (Court’s General Powers) Act 1943; to empower certain persons subject to the Naval Discipline Act to take affidavits and declarations outside the United Kingdom; to save the previous operation of Regulation fifty-five F of the Defence (General) Regulations 1939, after the revocation or expiry thereof; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.",
  "citation": "1 & 2 Eliz. 2 c. 47",
  "type": "ukpga",
  "year": "Eliz2/1-2",
  "number": "47",
  "version": "current",
  "date": "1953-07-31",
  "revised": true,
  "valid_from": "2018-04-01",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "unapplied_effects": 0,
  "provisions": [
    {
      "path": "introduction",
      "kind": "introduction",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Introductory text",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/introduction",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/1",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "1",
      "heading": "Permanent enactments of provisions contained in certain Defence Regulations.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/section-1",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/2",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "2",
      "heading": "Permanent enactment of provisions of Defence (Trading with the Enemy) Regulations 1940.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/section-2",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/3",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "3",
      "heading": "Extension of control of certain explosives.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/section-3",
      "extent": "E+W+S",
      "status": "repealed",
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/4",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "4",
      "heading": ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/section-4",
      "extent": null,
      "status": "repealed",
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/5",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "5",
      "heading": "Power of local authorities to continue to let certain land for use as allotment gardens.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/section-5",
      "extent": "E+W+S",
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/6",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "6",
      "heading": ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/section-6",
      "extent": "E+W+S",
      "status": "repealed",
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/7",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "7, 8",
      "heading": ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/section-7",
      "extent": null,
      "status": "repealed",
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/9",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "9",
      "heading": ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/section-9",
      "extent": null,
      "status": "repealed",
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/10",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "10",
      "heading": "Power of certain officers to take affidavits, &c.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/section-10",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": "repealed",
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/11",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "11",
      "heading": ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/section-11",
      "extent": null,
      "status": "repealed",
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/12",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "12",
      "heading": "Provisions as to orders.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/section-12",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/13",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "13",
      "heading": "Application to Northern Ireland.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/section-13",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "section/14",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "14",
      "heading": "†Short title and repeal.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/section-14",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "schedule/FIRST",
      "kind": "schedule",
      "number": "FIRST",
      "heading": "Provisions of certain Defence Regulations permanently enacted",
      "url": null,
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "schedule/FIRST/paragraph/1",
      "kind": "paragraph",
      "number": "1, 2",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-1",
      "extent": null,
      "status": "repealed",
      "parent": "schedule/FIRST"
    },
    {
      "path": "schedule/FIRST/paragraph/3",
      "kind": "paragraph",
      "number": "3",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-3",
      "extent": null,
      "status": "repealed",
      "parent": "schedule/FIRST"
    },
    {
      "path": "schedule/FIRST/paragraph/4",
      "kind": "paragraph",
      "number": "4",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-4",
      "extent": null,
      "status": "repealed",
      "parent": "schedule/FIRST"
    },
    {
      "path": "schedule/FIRST/crossheading/amendment-of-s-3-3-of-import-export-and-customs-powers-defence-act-1939-and-extension-thereof-as-respects-goods-found-in-northern-ireland",
      "kind": "crossheading",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Amendment of s. 3 (3) of Import, Export and Customs Powers (Defence) Act, 1939, and extension thereof as respects goods found in Northern Ireland",
      "url": null,
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": "schedule/FIRST"
    },
    {
      "path": "schedule/FIRST/paragraph/5",
      "kind": "paragraph",
      "number": "5",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-5",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": "schedule/FIRST/crossheading/amendment-of-s-3-3-of-import-export-and-customs-powers-defence-act-1939-and-extension-thereof-as-respects-goods-found-in-northern-ireland"
    },
    {
      "path": "schedule/FIRST/paragraph/6",
      "kind": "paragraph",
      "number": "6, 7",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-6",
      "extent": null,
      "status": "repealed",
      "parent": "schedule/FIRST/crossheading/amendment-of-s-3-3-of-import-export-and-customs-powers-defence-act-1939-and-extension-thereof-as-respects-goods-found-in-northern-ireland"
    },
    {
      "path": "schedule/FIRST/crossheading/extension-of-power-of-minister-of-supply-to-make-byelaws-under-military-lands-acts-1892-to-1903",
      "kind": "crossheading",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Extension of power of Minister of Supply to make byelaws under Military Lands Acts, 1892 to 1903",
      "url": null,
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": "schedule/FIRST"
    },
    {
      "path": "schedule/FIRST/paragraph/8",
      "kind": "paragraph",
      "number": "8",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-8",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": "schedule/FIRST/crossheading/extension-of-power-of-minister-of-supply-to-make-byelaws-under-military-lands-acts-1892-to-1903"
    },
    {
      "path": "schedule/FIRST/paragraph/9",
      "kind": "paragraph",
      "number": "9",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-9",
      "extent": null,
      "status": "repealed",
      "parent": "schedule/FIRST/crossheading/extension-of-power-of-minister-of-supply-to-make-byelaws-under-military-lands-acts-1892-to-1903"
    },
    {
      "path": "schedule/SECOND",
      "kind": "schedule",
      "number": "SECOND",
      "heading": "Provisions of Defence (Trading with the Enemy) Regulations 1940, permanently enacted",
      "url": null,
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "schedule/SECOND/paragraph/1",
      "kind": "paragraph",
      "number": "1",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/schedule-SECOND/paragraph-1",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": "schedule/SECOND"
    },
    {
      "path": "schedule/SECOND/paragraph/2",
      "kind": "paragraph",
      "number": "2",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/schedule-SECOND/paragraph-2",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": "schedule/SECOND"
    },
    {
      "path": "schedule/SECOND/paragraph/3",
      "kind": "paragraph",
      "number": "3",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/schedule-SECOND/paragraph-3",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": "schedule/SECOND"
    },
    {
      "path": "schedule/SECOND/paragraph/4",
      "kind": "paragraph",
      "number": "4",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/schedule-SECOND/paragraph-4",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": "schedule/SECOND"
    },
    {
      "path": "schedule/SECOND/paragraph/5",
      "kind": "paragraph",
      "number": "5",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/schedule-SECOND/paragraph-5",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": "schedule/SECOND"
    },
    {
      "path": "schedule/SECOND/paragraph/6",
      "kind": "paragraph",
      "number": "6",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/schedule-SECOND/paragraph-6",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": "schedule/SECOND"
    },
    {
      "path": "schedule/SECOND/paragraph/7",
      "kind": "paragraph",
      "number": "7",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/schedule-SECOND/paragraph-7",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": "schedule/SECOND"
    },
    {
      "path": "schedule/SECOND/paragraph/8",
      "kind": "paragraph",
      "number": "8",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/schedule-SECOND/paragraph-8",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": "schedule/SECOND"
    },
    {
      "path": "schedule/SECOND/paragraph/9",
      "kind": "paragraph",
      "number": "9",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/schedule-SECOND/paragraph-9",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": "schedule/SECOND"
    },
    {
      "path": "schedule/SECOND/paragraph/10",
      "kind": "paragraph",
      "number": "10",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/schedule-SECOND/paragraph-10",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": "schedule/SECOND"
    },
    {
      "path": "schedule/THIRD",
      "kind": "schedule",
      "number": "THIRD",
      "heading": ". . .",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/schedule-THIRD",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    }
  ],
  "has_text": true,
  "pdfs": [
    {
      "title": "Printed copy",
      "main": true,
      "language": null,
      "date": "2025-03-24",
      "size": 2201813,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/pdf/ukpga_19530047_en.pdf",
      "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/47/pdfs/ukpga_19530047_en.pdf"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "made_under": [],
  "changes_made_to": 7,
  "changes_made_to_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/changes.json",
  "changes_made_by": 0,
  "changes_made_by_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/changes/by-it.json",
  "instruments_made_under": 0,
  "instruments_made_under_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/instruments.json",
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/47",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:16:31.260077+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."
}