{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ordnance-survey-act-1841/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ordnance-survey-act-1841/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/4-5/30",
  "legislation_title": "Ordnance Survey Act 1841",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ordnance-survey-act-1841",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Penalty on removing or defacing boundary stones, &c.",
  "text": "If any person not duly authorized shall take away, remove, or displace, or alter the situation of any boundary stone, post, block, bolt, or mark, which shall be set up and placed for the purposes of this Act, . . . he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale. shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding £25level 1 on the standard scale . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Criminal Damage Act 1971 (c. 48), Sch. Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 7 substituted (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(2), Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words “level 1 on the standard scale” substituted (E.W.S.) for “£25” by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289G"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45), s. 31(5)(6)(9) and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21), s. 289C(4)(5)(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/4-5/30/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:39:36.286169+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."
}