{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telegraph-act-1870/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telegraph-act-1870/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/33-34/88",
  "legislation_title": "Telegraph Act 1870",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telegraph-act-1870",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Extension of those Acts to Channel Islands and Isle of Man.",
  "text": "The Telegraph Acts 1868, 1869, shall extend to and be in force in the Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Sark, Alderney and Man, and the Islands and islets adjacent thereto respectively, and for the purposes of the said Acts and each of them the said islands and islets shall respectively be deemed to be part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1868 c. 110."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1869 c. 73."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reference to Ireland to be construed as exclusive of Republic of Ireland: S.R. & O. 1923/405 (Rev. X, p. 298: 1923, p. 400), art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/33-34/88/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:54:28.422140+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."
}