{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/juries-act-1974/section-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/juries-act-1974/section-13.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1974/23",
  "legislation_title": "Juries Act 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/juries-act-1974",
  "path": "section/13",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Separation.",
  "text": "If, on the trial of any person for an offence on indictment, the court thinks fit, it may at any time (whether before or after the jury have been directed to consider their verdict) permit the jury to separate.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 13 substituted (3.2.1995) by 1994 c. 33, s. 43(1); S.I. 1995/127, art. 2(1), Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/23/section/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:44:59.863919+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."
}