{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/war-damage-act-1965/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/war-damage-act-1965/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1965/18",
  "legislation_title": "War Damage Act 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/war-damage-act-1965",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Abolition of rights at common law to compensation for certain damage to, or, destruction of, property.",
  "text": "(1) No person shall be entitled at common law to receive from the Crown compensation in respect of damage to, or destruction of, property caused (whether before or after the passing of this Act, within or outside the United Kingdom) by acts lawfully done by, or on the authority of, the Crown during, or in comtemplation of the outbreak of, a war in which the Sovereign was, or is, engaged.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 1(2) repealed (8.11.1995) by 1995 c. 44, s. 1, Sch. 1 Pt. VI"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1965/18/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:57:56.931893+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."
}