{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/house-to-house-collections-act-1939/section-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/house-to-house-collections-act-1939/section-11.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/2-3/44",
  "legislation_title": "House to House Collections Act 1939",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/house-to-house-collections-act-1939",
  "path": "section/11",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "(1) In this Act the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say:—\n“charitable purpose” means any charitable, benevolent or philanthropic purpose, whether or not the purpose is charitable within the meaning of any rule of law;\n“collection” means an appeal to the public, made by means of visits from house to house, to give, whether for consideration or not, money or other property; and “collector” means, in relation to a collection, a person who makes the appeal in the course of such visits as aforesaid;\n“house” includes a place of business;\n“licence” means a licence under this Act;\n. . .\n“prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made under this Act;\n“proceeds” means, in relation to a collection, all money and all other property given, whether for consideration or not, in response to the appeal made;\n“promoter” means, in relation to a collection, a person who causes others to act, whether for remuneration or otherwise, as collectors for the purposes of the collection; and “promote” and “promotion” have corresponding meanings.\n(2) For the purposes of this Act, a collection shall be deemed to be made for a particular purpose where the appeal is made in association with a representation that the money or other property appealed for, or part thereof, will be applied for that purpose.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (S.) by Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 45, SIF 81:2), ss. 119(15), 137, Sch. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Definitions of “police area”, “police authority” and “chief officer of police” repealed by Police Act 1964 (c. 48), Sch. 10 Pt. I and Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65) Sch. 29"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/2-3/44/section/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:32:33.931512+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."
}