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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ordnance-board-transfer-act-1855/section-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/18-19/117",
  "legislation_title": "Ordnance Board Transfer Act 1855",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ordnance-board-transfer-act-1855",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Powers given by 10th and 18th sections of 5 & 6 Vict. c. 94. to bodies corporate, &c. to sell, to be exercised by such Secretary of State.",
  "text": "All powers by the tenth and eighteenth sections of the Defence Act 1842, given to bodies politic or coporate, feoffees or trustees for charitable or other public purposes, tenants for life and tenants in tail, husbands, guardians, trustees, committees, curators, and attornies, respectively therein mentioned, to contract and agree for the absolute sale or exchange of any messuages, buildings, castles, forts, lines, or other fortifications, manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, and for the sale of any reversion, and the grant of any lease, and to convey, surrender, demise, or grant the same accordingly, shall continue in full force, and hereafter may or shall be exercised or exercisable, and be acted under or take effect, in favour or at the instance of the Secretary of State for Defence, on behalf of Her said Majesty, and for the public service, in the same manner and as effectually as the said powers are in and by such recited Acts given or created or made exercisable in favour or at the instance of the said principal officers for the time being, on behalf of Her said Majesty, or for the public service; and all enactments, directions, and provisions in the said recited Acts contained shall continue in full force, and may or shall at all times hereafter be by the Secretary of State for Defence acted on and take effect, and shall enure or take effect in favour of, and may be enforced by, the Secretary of State for Defence and his successors, on behalf of Her Majesty, and for the public service.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed (E.W.) (S.) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976 (c. 16), Sch. 1 Pt. XV"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.I. 1964/488, Sch. 1 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1842 c. 94."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/18-19/117/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:18:19.488581+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."
}