{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universities-scotland-act-1858/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universities-scotland-act-1858/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/21-22/83",
  "legislation_title": "Universities (Scotland) Act 1858",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universities-scotland-act-1858",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "University courts to be constituted.",
  "text": "There shall be constituted in each of the said Universities a University court, which shall... possess and exercise the powers herein-after enacted, and of which the rector shall be the ordinary president, with a deliberative and a casting vote.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 4 repealed (S.) (30.12.2016) by Higher Education Governance (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 15), s. 26(2), sch. para. 1(2); S.S.I. 2016/382, reg. 2(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/21-22/83/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:14:15.616010+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."
}