{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-returns-act-1869/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-returns-act-1869/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/32-33/86",
  "legislation_title": "Parliamentary Returns Act 1869",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-returns-act-1869",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Discontinuance by Treasury of separate returns.",
  "text": "Whenever it appears to the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury that any account, statement, return, or document required by any Act of Parliament or otherwise to be laid before one or both Houses of Parliament contains the same information as or less information than is contained in the resource accounts prepared under the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000, or in any account, statement, return, or document which is annually laid before one or both Houses of Parliament, or that the same has otherwise become obsolete, such Commissioners may by minute direct that after the date of such minute coming into operation the account, statement, return, or other document therein mentioned shall be discontinued, and upon the minute coming into operation the same shall be discontinued accordingly, and shall not be prepared or laid before either House of Parliament.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 2 substitited (1.4.2001) by 2000 c. 20, s. 29, Sch. 1 para. 14; S.I. 2000/3349, art. 3(1)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/32-33/86/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:55:59.771569+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."
}