{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regency-act-1953/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regency-act-1953/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/1",
  "legislation_title": "Regency Act 1953",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regency-act-1953",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Short title, construction, citation and repeal.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Regency Act 1953, and shall be construed as one with the Regency Acts 1937 and 1943, and those Acts and this Act may be cited together as the Regency Acts 1937 to 1953.\n(2) In subsection (2A) of section six of the Regency Act, 1937 (set out in section one of the Regency Act, 1943) the words “The heir apparent or heir presumptive to the Throne if not under the age of eighteen years shall not be disqualified from being a Counsellor of State by reason only of his not being of full age, but save as aforesaid” (being words rendered unnecessary by section two of this Act) are hereby repealed.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1937 c. 16."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1943 c. 42."
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 1(4), 4(2) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/1/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:17:08.782802+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}