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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-of-the-working-classes-act-1885/section-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/48-49/72",
  "legislation_title": "Housing of the Working Classes Act 1885",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-of-the-working-classes-act-1885",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Provision respecting sites of certain metropolitan prisons.",
  "text": "In the event of the removal from their present sites of Millbank Penitentiary or Pentonville Penitentiary, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, on the recommendation of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, and subject to such conditions as they may think reasonable, and in the event of the removal from its present site of Coldbath Fields Prison, or House of Detention, Clerkenwell, it shall be lawful for the justices of the peace for the county of Middlesex if the justices think fit so to do, to sell and convey those protective sites or any part or parts thereof to the Metropolitan Board of Works, at a fair market price.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of s. 3 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/48-49/72/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:38:00.909931+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."
}