{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-police-clauses-act-1847/section-29",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/10-11/89",
  "legislation_title": "Town Police Clauses Act 1847",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-police-clauses-act-1847",
  "path": "section/29",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Penalty on drunken persons, &c. guilty of riotous or indecent behaviour.",
  "text": ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . every person guilty of any violent or indecent behaviour in any police office or any police station house, within the limits of the special Act, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings for every such offence, or, in the discretion of the justice before whom he is convicted, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding seven days.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Criminal Justice Act 1967 (c. 80), s. 91(2), Sch. 7 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 29, as incorporated in any other enactment, amended by Penalties for Drunkenness Act 1962 (c. 52), s. 1(1)(b), (2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2003/44",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice Act 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2003/44",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice Act 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/89/section/29",
    "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."
}