{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tramways-act-1870/section-49",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tramways-act-1870/section-49.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/33-34/78",
  "legislation_title": "Tramways Act 1870",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tramways-act-1870",
  "path": "section/49",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": "Penalty for obstruction of promoters in laying out tramway.",
  "text": "If any person wilfully obstructs any person acting under the authority of any promoters in the lawful exercise of their powers in setting out or making, forming, laying down, repairing, or renewing a tramway, or defaces or destroys any mark made for the purposes of setting out the line of tramway, or damages or destroys any property of any promoters, lessees, or licensees, he shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 49-64 repealed (except as incorporated in, or otherwise applied by, any Act of Parliament or Provisional Order) (1.1.1993) by Transport and Works Act 1992 (c. 42), ss. 65(1)(b), 68(1), Sch. 4 Pt.I; S.I. 1992/2784. art. 2(b), Sch. 2 Pt.I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289G"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 49 incorporated (with modifications) (21.7.1994) by 1994 c. xi, s. 4(1)(2)(a)(b)(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/33-34/78/section/49",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:54:37.315790+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."
}