{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unlawful-drilling-act-1819/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unlawful-drilling-act-1819/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo3and1Geo4/60/1",
  "legislation_title": "Unlawful Drilling Act 1819",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unlawful-drilling-act-1819",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to prevent the training of Persons to the Use of Arms, and to the Practice of Military Evolutions and Exercise.\n[11th December 1819]\nWhereas in some parts of the United Kingdom men clandestinely and unlawfully assembled have practised military training and exercise, to the great terror and alarm of his Majesty’s peaceable and loyal subjects, and the imminent danger of the public peace:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (except as it extends to N.I.) (21.7.2008) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2008 (c. 12), Sch. 1 Pt. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Short title given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Powers of Lieutenant and two justices of the peace of a county under this Act now exercisable by a Secretary of State or any officer deputed by him for the purpose: Firearms Act 1920 (c. 43), s. 16"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act excluded by S.I. 1981/155 (N.I. 2), art. 54(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act saved (N.I.) (temp.) (27.8.1991) by Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1991 (c. 24, SIF 39:1), ss. 32(4), 69"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Act excluded (N.I.) (1.2.2005) by The Firearms (Northern Ireland) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/702), arts. 1(3), 49(4) (with art. 81); S.R. 2005/4, art. 3 (with arts. 4-7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at Royal Assent"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo3and1Geo4/60/1/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:09:31.168115+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."
}