{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/population-statistics-act-1938/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/population-statistics-act-1938/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/1-2/12",
  "legislation_title": "Population (Statistics) Act 1938",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/population-statistics-act-1938",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Short title, interpretation and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Population (Statistics) Act, 1938.\n(2) In this Act the expression “Registration Acts” means the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953, and the expression “registration officer” means any superintendent registrar and registrar of births and deaths.\n(3) This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Births and Deaths Registrations Act 1953 (c. 20), s. 42(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 7(4) repealed by Population (Statistics) Act 1960 (c. 32), s. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1953 c. 20."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/1-2/12/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:33:51.900707+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."
}