{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/evidence-amendment-act-1853/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/evidence-amendment-act-1853/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/16-17/83",
  "legislation_title": "Evidence Amendment Act 1853",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/evidence-amendment-act-1853",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "except in criminal cases and in cases of adultery.",
  "text": "Nothing herein shall render any husband competent or compellable to give evidence for or against his wife, or any wife competent or compellable to give evidence for or against her husband, in any criminal proceeding, . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Evidence Further Amendment Act 1869 (c. 68), s. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/16-17/83/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T18:49:44.241512+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}