{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senior-courts-act-1981/section-137",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senior-courts-act-1981/section-137.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/54",
  "legislation_title": "Senior Courts Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senior-courts-act-1981",
  "path": "section/137",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "137",
  "heading": "Money paid into court under enactment subsequently repealed.",
  "text": "Where in pursuance of any enactment, whenever passed, any money has (before or after the commencement of this Act) been paid—\n(a) into the Bank of England in the name of the Accountant General of the Senior Courts; or\n(b) into the Senior Courts,\nthen, if that enactment has been or is subsequently repealed—\n(i) the Accountant General may continue to deal with the money; and\n(ii) any powers of the High Court with respect to the money shall continue to be exercisable,\nin all respects as if that enactment had not been repealed.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 137 substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148, Sch. 11 para. 26(1); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/54/section/137",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:13:48.516361+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."
}