{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-police-clauses-act-1847/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-police-clauses-act-1847/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/10-11/89",
  "legislation_title": "Town Police Clauses Act 1847",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-police-clauses-act-1847",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act for consolidating in One Act certain Provisions usually contained in Acts for regulating the Police of Towns.\n[22nd July 1847]",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act amended by Town Police Clauses Act 1889 (c. 14); amended (with respect to hackney carriages, as incorporated in any enactment (whenever passed)) by Transport Act 1985 (c. 67, SIF 126), s. 16; extended by Public Health Act 1925 (c. 71, SIF 100:1), s. 76; extended (E.W.) (as incorporated in Public Health Act 1875) by Transport Act 1985 (c. 67, SIF 126), s. 15(1); restricted by London Passenger Transport Act 1933 (c. 14, SIF 126), s. 51(7) and restricted by Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 (c. 14, SIF 107:1), s. 64(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1891 (c. 67)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Words of enactment repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1891 (c. 67)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern IrelandAct: functions of local authority not to be responsibility of an executive of the authority (E.) (16.11.2000) by virtue of S.I. 2000/2853, reg. 2(1), Sch. 1Act: extended (1.4.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 255(2), (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/801, art. 2(2)(a), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act modified in part (E.W.) (1.10.2010 for specified purposes) by Equality Act 2010 (c. 15), ss. 161(2), 216(3) (with ss. 6(4), 205); S.I. 2010/2317, art. 2(12)(a) (with arts. arts. 4-25 15 Schs. 1-8) (as amended (1.10.2010) by S.I. 2010/2337, art. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/89/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:30:21.569813+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."
}