{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/montserrat-constitution-order-1989/schedule-2/paragraph-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/montserrat-constitution-order-1989/schedule-2/paragraph-47.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/2401",
  "legislation_title": "The Montserrat Constitution Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/montserrat-constitution-order-1989",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/47",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Penalties for unauthorised persons sitting or voting.",
  "text": "(1) Any person who sits or votes in the Legislative Council knowing or having reasonable grounds for knowing that he is not entitled so to do shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred Eastern Caribbean dollars for every day upon which he so sits or votes.\n(2) The said penalty shall be recoverable by action in the High Court at the suit of the Attorney-General.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended (Montserrat constitution)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/1339",
      "affecting_title": "The Montserrat Constitution (Amendment) Order 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2401/schedule/2/paragraph/47",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:30:48.620255+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."
}