{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-notaries-act-1801/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-notaries-act-1801/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo3/41/79",
  "legislation_title": "Public Notaries Act 1801",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-notaries-act-1801",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "From Aug. 1, 1801, no person in England shall act as a Publick Notary, unless duly admitted.",
  "text": "From and after the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and one, no person in England shall be created to act as a publick notary, ..., unless such person shall have been duly sworn, admitted, and inrolled, . . . in the court wherein notaries have been accustomarily sworn, admitted, and inrolled.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 1 repealed (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 208, 210, 211, Sch. 21 para. 2, Sch. 23 (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(i)(i) (with art. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in S.1 repealed (1.7.1991) by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 76:1), s. 125(7), Sch.20; S.I. 1991/1364, art. 2,Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo3/41/79/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:40:13.162542+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."
}