{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unlawful-drilling-act-1819/section-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo3and1Geo4/60/1",
  "legislation_title": "Unlawful Drilling Act 1819",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unlawful-drilling-act-1819",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Sheriffs depute, &c. in Scotland to have the same powers as magistrates in England.",
  "text": "The sheriffs principal and their substitutes, justices of the peace, magistrates of royal burghs, and all other inferior judges and magistrates, and also all high and petty constables, or other peace officers, of any county, city or town within Scotland, shall have such and the same powers and authorities for putting this present Act in execution within Scotland, as the justices of the peace and other magistrates and peace officers and constables aforesaid respectively have, by virtue of this Act, within and for other parts of the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "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      "text": "Act repealed (except as it extends to N.I.) (21.7.2008) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2008 (c. 12), Sch. 1 Pt. 3"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": "Words substituted by virtue of Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971 (c. 58), s. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Functions of Burgh magistrates now exercisable by justice of the peace: District Courts (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 20), s. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo3and1Geo4/60/1/section/3",
    "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."
}