{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/towns-improvement-clauses-act-1847/section-65",
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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/65",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "65",
  "heading": "Numbers of houses to be renewed by occupiers.",
  "text": "The occupiers of houses and other buildings in the streets shall mark their houses with such numbers as the commissioners approve of, and shall renew such numbers as often as they become obliterated or defaced; and every such occupier who fails, within one week after notice for that purpose from the commissioners, to mark his house with a number approved of by the commissioners, or to renew such number when obliterated, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £20level 1 on the standard scale, and the commissioners shall cause such numbers to be marked or to be renewed, as the case may require, and the expence thereof shall be repaid to them by such occupier, and shall be recoverable as damages.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "“level 1 on the standard scale” substituted (E.W.) for “£20” by virtue of Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Criminal Justice Act 1967 (c. 80), s. 92, Sch. 3 Pt. I"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/34/section/65",
    "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."
}