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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/evidence-amendment-act-1853/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/evidence-amendment-act-1853/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/16-17/83",
  "legislation_title": "Evidence Amendment Act 1853",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/evidence-amendment-act-1853",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Husbands and wives not compellable to disclose communications.",
  "text": "No husband shall be compellable to disclose any communication made to him by his wife during the marriage, and no wife shall be compellable to disclose any communication made to her by her husband during the marriage.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 3 repealed, (N.I.) except in relation to criminal proceedings, by Civil Evidence Act (Northern Ireland) 1971 (c. 36), s. 12(3); repealed (E.W.) by Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60, SIF 95), s. 119, Sch. 7 Pt. V"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/16-17/83/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:22:02.656381+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."
  }
}