{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/markets-and-fairs-clauses-act-1847/section-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/markets-and-fairs-clauses-act-1847/section-22.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/10-11/14",
  "legislation_title": "Markets And Fairs Clauses Act 1847",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/markets-and-fairs-clauses-act-1847",
  "path": "section/22",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Articles to be weighed if requested by the buyer. Penalty for refusal.",
  "text": "Every person selling or offering for sale any articles in the market or fair shall, if required so to do by the buyer, cause the same to be weighed or measured by the weights and scales or measures provided by the undertakers; and any such person who shall refuse, on demand, to cause such articles to be weighed or measured in manner aforesaid shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted (E.W.S.) by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289G"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/14/section/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:31:17.701446+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."
}