{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/towns-improvement-clauses-act-1847/section-127",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/10-11/34",
  "legislation_title": "Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/towns-improvement-clauses-act-1847",
  "path": "section/127",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "127",
  "heading": "Existing slaughter-houses, &c. to be registered.",
  "text": "Every place within the limits of the special Act which shall be used as a slaughter-house or knacker’s yard shall, within three months after the passing of such Act, be registered by the owner or occupier thereof, at the office of the commissioners, and on application to the commissioners for that purpose the commissioners shall cause every such slaughter-house or knacker’s yard to be registered in a book to be kept by them for that purpose; and every person who after the expiration of the said three months, and after one week’s notice of this provision from the commissioners, uses or suffers to be used any such place as a slaughter-house or knacker’s yard, without its being so registered, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £25level 1 on the standard scale for such offence, and a penalty not exceeding 50p for every day after the first day during which such place shall be used as a slaughter-house or knacker’s yard without having been so registered.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "“level 1 on the standard scale” substituted (E.W.) for “£25” by virtue of Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45), s. 31(5)(6)(9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Decimal Currency Act 1969 (c. 19), s. 10(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/34/section/127",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:31:02.753043+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."
}