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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/47",
  "legislation_title": "Emergency Laws (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1953",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-laws-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1953",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "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.\n[31st July 1953]",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act amended by S.I. 1988/1380, reg. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at Royal Assent"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 1, 14(1), Sch. 1, para. 5 was taken from S.I.F. Group 40:3 (Customs and Excise: Import and Export Controls); ss. 1, 14(1), Sch. 1, para. 8 was taken from S.I.F Group 28:3 (Compulsory Acquisition: Defence Purposes); ss. 2, 14(1), Sch. 2 was taken from S.I.F. Group 129:3 (War and Emergency: Enemy Trading and Property); ss. 3, 12 to 14(1) was taken from from S.I.F. Group 51:2 (Firearms and Explosives: Explosives); ss. 5, 14(1) was taken from S.I.F Group 2:5 and 2:6 (Agriculture: Allotments, England and Wales and Allotments, Scotland); ss. 10, 14(1) was taken from S.I.F Group 7:1 (Armed Forces: Navy, Army and Air Force); provisions omitted from S.I.F have been dealt with as referred to in other commentary"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/47/introduction",
    "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."
}