{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentence-of-death-expectant-mothers-act-1931-repealed-3091998/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentence-of-death-expectant-mothers-act-1931-repealed-3091998/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/21-22/24",
  "legislation_title": "Sentence of Death (Expectant Mothers) Act 1931 (repealed 30.9.1998)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentence-of-death-expectant-mothers-act-1931-repealed-3091998",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Sentence of death not to be passed on pregnant woman.",
  "text": "Where a woman convicted of an offence punishable with death is found in accordance with the provisions of this Act to be pregnant, the sentence to be passed on her shall be a sentence of penal servitude for life instead of sentence of death.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reference to penal servitude for life to be construed as reference to imprisonment for life or any shorter term: Criminal Justice Act 1948 (c. 58), s. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/21-22/24/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:38:32.493706+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."
}