{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pedlars-act-1871/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pedlars-act-1871/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/34-35/96",
  "legislation_title": "Pedlars Act 1871",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pedlars-act-1871",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Register of certificates to be kept in each district.",
  "text": "There shall be kept in each police area a register of the certificates . . . granted . . . in the areaunder this Act, in such form and with such particulars as may from time to time be directed in Great Britain by one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, and in Ireland by the Lord Lieutenant.\nThe entries in such register, and any copy of any of such entries, certified by the chief officer of police to be a true copy, shall be evidence of the facts stated therein.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 8 substituted (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 16, ss. 103(1), 104(1), Sch. 7 Pt. II para. 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Pedlars Act 1881 (c. 45), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 8 substituted (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 16, ss. 103(1), 104(1), Sch. 7 Pt. II para. 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision extends to England, Wales and Scotland 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/34-35/96/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T18:29:59.018632+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}