{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/penal-servitude-act-1891/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/penal-servitude-act-1891/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/54-55/69",
  "legislation_title": "Penal Servitude Act 1891",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/penal-servitude-act-1891",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Amendment of 5 Geo. 4. c. 83. and 34 & 35 Vict. c. 112. s. 15 as to rogues and vagabonds.",
  "text": "Section four of the Vagrancy Act 1824, as amended by section fifteen of the Prevention of Crimes Act 1871, shall be read and construed as if the provisions applying to suspected persons and reputed thieves frequenting the places and with the intent therein described, applied also to every suspected person or reputed thief loitering about or in any of the said places and with the said intent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 7 repealed (E.W.) by Criminal Attempts Act 1981 (c. 47, SIF 39:1), Sch. 1 Pt. II"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/54-55/69/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:32:42.460467+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."
}