{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rights-of-light-act-1959/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rights-of-light-act-1959/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/7-8/56",
  "legislation_title": "Rights of Light Act 1959",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rights-of-light-act-1959",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Short title, commencement and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Rights of Light Act, 1959.\n(2) This Act, except sections one and six thereof, shall come into operation at the end of the period of three months beginning with the day on which it is passed.\n(3) This Act shall not extend to Scotland.\n(4) This Act, . . . , shall not extend to Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c.36, SIF 29:3), s. 41(1), Sch. 6 Pt. I"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/7-8/56/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:11:48.556628+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."
}