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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/house-of-commons-costs-taxation-act-1847repealed/section-10",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/10-11/69",
  "legislation_title": "House of Commons Costs Taxation Act 1847(repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/house-of-commons-costs-taxation-act-1847repealed",
  "path": "section/10",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Construction of certain words in this Act.",
  "text": "In the construction of this Act the word “month” shall be taken to mean a calendar month; and every word importing the singular number only shall extend and be applied to several persons, matters, or things, as well as one person, matter, or thing, and every word importing the plural number shall extend and be applied to one person, matter, or thing, as well as several persons, matters, or things; and every word importing the masculine gender only shall extend and be applied to a female as well as a male; and the word “person” shall extend to any body politic, corporate, or collegiate municipal, civil, or ecclesiastical, aggregate or sole, as well as an individual; . . . unless in any of the cases aforesaid it be otherwise specially provided, or there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1981 (c. 19), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. VIII"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/69/section/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:30:36.348676+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."
}