{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gun-barrel-proof-act-1868/section-124",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gun-barrel-proof-act-1868/section-124.json",
  "legislation": "ukla/Vict/31-32/113",
  "legislation_title": "Gun Barrel Proof Act 1868",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gun-barrel-proof-act-1868",
  "path": "section/124",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "124",
  "heading": "Provision as to Penalties.",
  "text": "The several Punishments ... enacted in this Act shall not be cumulative in respect of one and the same Offence, but shall be applicable to any such Offence by way of Alternative only; and proceedings for any offence under this Act which is punishable on summary conviction may be taken at any time not later than six months after the time when either of the Two Companies had, or with reasonable diligence might have had, notice that the offence had been committed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 124 repealed (1.12.1978) by Gun Barrel Proof Act 1978 (c. 9), s. 9(3), Sch. 4; S.I. 1978/1587, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 124 substituted (1.12.1978) by Gun Barrel Proof Act 1978 (c. 9), s. 9(3), Sch. 3 para. 13; S.I. 1978/1587, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/Vict/31-32/113/section/124",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:01:33.047048+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."
}