{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-police-act-1839/section-76",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-police-act-1839/section-76.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/2-3/47",
  "legislation_title": "Metropolitan Police Act 1839",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-police-act-1839",
  "path": "section/76",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "76",
  "heading": "Offences how to be tried.",
  "text": "Every such magistrate shall be empowered summarily to convict any person charged with any offence against this Act, . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 76 repealed (19.11.1998) by 1998 c. 43, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I Group 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reference to a magistrate of the police courts of the metropolis to be construed as reference to a metropolitan stipendiary magistrate sitting in a magistrates' court in the same court-house as the chief metropolitan stipendiary magistrate: Administration of Justice Act 1964 (c. 42), Sch. 3 Pt. I para. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Reference to police court to be construed as reference to a magistrates' court for the inner London area: Administration of Justice Act 1964 (c. 42), Sch. 3 Pt. I para. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/2-3/47/section/76",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:42:26.485610+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."
}