{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/notification-of-births-act-1907/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/notification-of-births-act-1907/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw7/7/40",
  "legislation_title": "Notification of Births Act 1907",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/notification-of-births-act-1907",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Application to Scotland.",
  "text": "In the application of this Act to Scotland—\n1), (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . subsection four of section two shall not apply;\n(4) An offence may be tried before the sheriff or before any magistrate of a royal, parliamentary, or police burgh officiating under the provisions of any local or general Police Act; and an offender failing to make payment of a penalty shall be liable to imprisonment in terms of the Summary Jurisdiction Acts.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 4(1)(2) repealed by National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1972 (c. 58), Sch. 7 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1972 (c. 58), Sch. 7 Pt. II"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/7/40/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:22:05.081937+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."
}