{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policies-of-assurance-act-1867/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policies-of-assurance-act-1867/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/30-31/144",
  "legislation_title": "Policies of Assurance Act 1867",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policies-of-assurance-act-1867",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Defence or reply on equitable grounds may be pleaded.",
  "text": "In any action on a policy of life assurance, a defence on equitable grounds, or a reply to such defence on similar grounds, may be respectively pleaded and relied upon in the same manner and to the same extent as in any other personal action.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/30-31/144/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:58:39.165565+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."
}