{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telegraph-act-1899/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telegraph-act-1899/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/62-63/38",
  "legislation_title": "Telegraph Act 1899",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telegraph-act-1899",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Short title.",
  "text": "This Act may be cited as the Telegraph Act 1899, . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (25.7.2003 for specified purposes, 29.12.2003 for further specified purposes) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), ss. 406(6)(7), 408, 411(2), Sch. 19(1) (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/1900, art. 1(2), 2(1), 3(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 3(2) (as amended (8.12.2003) by S.I. 2003/3142, art. 1(3))); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(2) (with art. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Telecommunications Act 1984 (c. 12, SIF 96), s. 109, Sch. 7 Pt. I"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/62-63/38/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:26:38.121451+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."
}