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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-documents-deposit-act-1837/section-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Will4and1Vict/7/83",
  "legislation_title": "Parliamentary Documents Deposit Act 1837",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-documents-deposit-act-1837",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Clerks of the peace, &c. to permit such documents to be inspected or copied by persons interested.",
  "text": "All persons interested shall have liberty to, and the said clerks of the peaceclerks of the district councils, sheriff clerks, parish clerks, schoolmasters, town clerks, . . . , and every of them, are and is hereby required, at all reasonable hours of the day, to permit all persons interested to inspect during a reasonable time and make extracts from or copies of the said maps, plans, sections, books, writings, extracts and copies of or from the same, so deposited with them respectively, on payment by each person to the clerk of the peaceclerk of the district council, sheriff clerk, clerk of the parish, schoolmaster, town clerk, . . . having the custody of any such map, plan, section, book, writing, extract, or copy 5p for every such inspection, and the further sum 5p for every hour during which such inspection shall continue after the first hour, and after the rate of 2½p for every one hundred words copied therefrom.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words “clerks of the district councils” substituted (N.I.) for words “clerks of the peace” by Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 (c. 23), Sch. 5 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 8 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words “clerk of the district council” substituted (N.I.) for words “clerk of the peace” by Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 (c. 23), Sch. 5 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Decimal Currency Act 1969 (c. 19), s. 10(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4and1Vict/7/83/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:44:32.968821+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."
}