{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hypnotism-act-1952/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hypnotism-act-1952/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6and1Eliz2/15-16/46",
  "legislation_title": "Hypnotism Act 1952",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hypnotism-act-1952",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Control of demonstrations of hypnotism at places licensed for public entertainment.",
  "text": "(1) Where under any enactment an authority in any area in Scotland have power to grant licences for the regulation of theatres or other places of public amusement or public entertainment, any power conferred by any enactment to attach conditions to any such licence shall include power to attach conditions regulating or prohibiting the giving of an exhibition, demonstration or performance of hypnotism on any person at the place to which the licence relates.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 1(1) inserted (24.11.2005) by Licensing Act 2003 (c. 17), s. 201(2), Sch. 6 para. 26(2)(a) (with ss. 2(3), 15(2), 195); S.I. 2005/3056, art. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 1(1) substituted (24.11.2005) by Licensing Act 2003 (c. 17), s. 201(2), Sch. 6 para. 26(2)(b) (with ss. 2(3), 15(2), 195); S.I. 2005/3056, art. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 1(2) repealed (24.11.2005) by Licensing Act 2003 (c. 17), s. 201(2), Sch. 6 para. 26(3), Sch. 7 (with ss. 2(3), 15(2), 195); S.I. 2005/3056, art. 2(2) (with art. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6and1Eliz2/15-16/46/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:17:26.042525+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."
}