{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vestries-act-1831repealed-161992/section-35",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Will4/1-2/60",
  "legislation_title": "Vestries Act 1831(repealed 1.6.1992)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vestries-act-1831repealed-161992",
  "path": "section/35",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "35",
  "heading": "Auditors may call for persons and books.",
  "text": "The said auditors shall have power to summon and call before them, by a writing for that purpose, signed by any one of them, or by the clerk of the vestry of any parish adopting this Act, any parish officer or other person or persons whatsoever concerned in the said accounts, and to require of him or her or them to attend the said auditors at any meeting or adjourned meeting, and to bring with them all books of accounts, writings, papers, and documents required, which may concern the said accounts, and to give such information as to the particulars of such accounts as he, she, or they shall be enabled to give; and any parish officer or other person refusing so to attend, or otherwise wilfully obstructing the purposes of such inquiry, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4/1-2/60/section/35",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:52:20.915885+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."
}