{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/street-offences-act-1959/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/street-offences-act-1959/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/7-8/57",
  "legislation_title": "Street Offences Act 1959",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/street-offences-act-1959",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Short title, repeal, extent and commencement.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Street Offences Act 1959.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) This Act shall not extend to Scotland or to Northern Ireland.\n(4) This Act shall come into force at the expiration of one month beginning with the date on which it is passed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 5(2), Sch. repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c. 22), Sch. Pt. XI"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/7-8/57/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:11:47.824244+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."
}