{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gun-barrel-proof-act-1868/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gun-barrel-proof-act-1868/section-23.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/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Qualification of elected Guardians.",
  "text": "No Person shall be entitled to be elected or to continue an elected Guardian unless he be of full Age, and shall reside in or within Ten Miles of ...Birmingham, and unless he shall be seised or possessed of Real or Personal Estate, or both, to the Amount of One thousand Pounds, or be rated to the Relief of the Poor of the Parish in which he shall reside upon an annual Value of not less than Fifty Pounds.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 23 repealed (1.12.1978) by Gun Barrel Proof Act 1978 (c. 9), s.9(3), Sch. 4; S.I. 1978/1587, art. 2, Sch."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": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reference to rate for relief of poor to be construed as reference to general rate: General Rate Act 1967 (c. 9), s. 116(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Reference to full age to be construed as reference to age of 18 or over: Family Law Reform Act 1969 (c. 46), s. 1(1)(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/Vict/31-32/113/section/23",
    "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."
}