{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prescription-act-1832/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prescription-act-1832/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Will4/2-3/71",
  "legislation_title": "Prescription Act 1832",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prescription-act-1832",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Claim to the use of light enjoyed for 20 years.",
  "text": "When the access and use of light to and for any dwelling house, workshop, or other building shall have been actually enjoyed therewith for the full period of twenty years without interruption, the right thereto shall be deemed absolute and indefeasible, any local usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding, unless it shall appear that the same was enjoyed by some consent or agreement expressly made or given for that purpose by deed or writing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 3 explained by Rights of Light Act 1959 (c. 56), s. 4(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4/2-3/71/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:51:27.614070+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."
}