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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sale-of-offices-act-1551-repealed/section-I.",
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  "legislation": "aep/Edw6/5-6/16",
  "legislation_title": "Sale of Offices Act 1551 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sale-of-offices-act-1551-repealed",
  "path": "section/I.",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "I",
  "heading": "Penalty on selling any Office, or receiving or agreeing to receive Money, &c. for any Office concerning the Administration of Justice, or the Receipt or Controul of the King’s Revenue, or the keeping, &c. of any Town, Castle, or Fortress, or any Clerkship in any Court of Record;On the Seller, Forfeiture of all Title to the Office sold; On the Buyer, Disability to hold such Office bought, &c.",
  "text": ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "repealed",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (31.1.2013) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2013 (c. 2), s. 3(2), Sch. 1 Pt. 2 Group 7"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Edw6/5-6/16/section/I.",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:44:51.807320+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."
}