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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/towns-improvement-clauses-act-1847/section-97",
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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/97",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "97",
  "heading": "Penalty on persons other than scavengers removing dirt.",
  "text": "Every person, other than the person employed by the commissioners, or by some person contracting with the commissioners for that purpose, who collects or carries away any night soil, dust, ashes, rubbish, or filth, by this or the special Act directed to be removed by persons employed by the commissioners, from any street or public place within the limits of the special Act, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £25level 1 on the standard scale for every such offence.",
  "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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/34/section/97",
    "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."
}