{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offences-against-the-person-act-1861/section-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offences-against-the-person-act-1861/section-47.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/24-25/100",
  "legislation_title": "Offences against the Person Act 1861",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offences-against-the-person-act-1861",
  "path": "section/47",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Assault occasioning bodily harm.",
  "text": "Whosoever shall be convicted upon an indictment of any assault occasioning actual bodily harm shall be liable . . . to be kept in penal servitude . . .; . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed (E.W.) by Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33, SIF 39:1), ss. 123(6), 170, Sch. 8 para. 16, Sch. 16"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words omitted (E.W.) by virtue of Criminal Justice Act 1948 (c. 58), s. 1(2) and repealed (N.I.) by Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1953 (c. 14), s. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 47 extended (27.4.1997) by 1997 c. 13, ss. 1(2)(b), 10(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 16, 20, 26, 27, 34, 36, 38, 47, 57, 60 amended as to mode of trial by Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43, SIF 82), Sch. 1 para. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision extends to England and Wales only; a separate version has been created for Northern Ireland only"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/24-25/100/section/47",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:09:26.210595+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."
}