{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unlawful-drilling-act-1819/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unlawful-drilling-act-1819/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo3and1Geo4/60/1",
  "legislation_title": "Unlawful Drilling Act 1819",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unlawful-drilling-act-1819",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Persons so assembled may be detained and required to give bail, and prosecuted.",
  "text": "It shall be lawful for any justice of the peace or for any constable or peace officer , or for any other person acting in their aid or assistance, to disperse any such unlawful meeting or assembly as aforesaid, and to arrest and detain any person present at or aiding, assisting, or abetting any such assembly or meeting as aforesaid; . . .",
  "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      "text": "Act repealed (except as it extends to N.I.) (21.7.2008) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2008 (c. 12), Sch. 1 Pt. 3"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": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 2 ceased to have effect (E.W.) (1.1.2006) by virtue of Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), s. 178(8), Sch. 7 para. 38; S.I. 2005/3495, art. 2(1)(m)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 2 repealed (E.W.) (1.1.2006) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), s. 178(8)(8), Sch. 7 para. 1, Sch. 17 Pt. 2; S.I. 2005/3495, art. 2(1)(m)(u); (N.I.) (1.3.2007) by The Police and Criminal Evidence (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/288), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words repealed by Courts Act 1971 (c. 23), Sch. 11 Pt. IV, and are expressed to be repealed (N.I.) by Statute Law Revision (Northern Ireland) Act 1980 (c. 59), Sch. Pt. IV"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo3and1Geo4/60/1/section/2",
    "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."
}