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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/newspapers-printers-and-reading-rooms-repeal-act-1869/schedule-SECOND/part-4/crossheading-section-four",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/32-33/24",
  "legislation_title": "Newspapers, Printers, and Reading Rooms Repeal Act 1869",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/newspapers-printers-and-reading-rooms-repeal-act-1869",
  "path": "schedule/SECOND/part/4/crossheading/section-four",
  "kind": "crossheading",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Section four",
  "text": "Provided always,that it shall not be lawful for any person or persons whatsoever to commence, prosecute, enter, or file, or cause or procure to be commenced, prosecuted, entered, or filed, any action, or information in any of Her Majesty’s courts, or before any justice or justices of the peace, against any person or persons for the recovery of any fine, penalty, or forfeiture made or incurred or which may hereafter be incurred under the provisions of this Act, unless the same be commenced, prosecuted, entered, or filed in the name of Her Majesty’s Attorney General ... in England, or Her Majesty’s Advocate for Scotland (as the case may be respectively); and if any action, or information shall be commenced, prosecuted, or filed in the name or names of any other person or persons than is or are in that behalf before mentioned, the same and every proceeding thereupon had are hereby declared and the same shall be null and void to all intents and purposes",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2. repealed (30.9.1997) by 1997 c. 60, s. 3(2)(3), Sch."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/32-33/24/schedule/SECOND/part/4/crossheading/section-four",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:56:46.403981+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."
}