{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gun-barrel-proof-act-1868/section-143",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gun-barrel-proof-act-1868/section-143.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/143",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "143",
  "heading": "Penalty on Officers for Fraud.",
  "text": "Every Officer or Person employed at the Proof House or any Branch Proof House of either of the Two Companies fraudulently marking, or causing or procuring or permitting or suffering to be marked, any Barrel as duly proved which has not been duly proved, or fraudulently marking or causing or procuring or permitting or suffering any Barrel to be marked as duly proved with a Mark indicating any other Proof than the Proof then duly made thereof, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum and on conviction on indictment to a fine and being legally convicted of any such Offence shall thenceforth be incapable of holding any Office or Employment in or under either of the Two Companies, or in any public Proof House established by Law, and if in Office or Employment in any such Proof House at the Time of such Conviction shall be forthwith dismissed from his Office or Employment therein.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 143 substituted (1.12.1978) by Gun Barrel Proof Act 1978 (c. 9), s. 9(3), Sch. 3 para. 19; 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/143",
    "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."
}