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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/acts-of-parliament-numbering-and-citation-act-1962/section-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/10-11/34",
  "legislation_title": "Acts of Parliament Numbering and Citation Act 1962",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/acts-of-parliament-numbering-and-citation-act-1962",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Numbering and citation of future Acts.",
  "text": "The chapter numbers assigned to Acts of Parliament passed in the year nineteen hundred and sixty-three and every subsequent year shall be assigned by reference to the calendar year, and not the Session, in which they are passed; and any such Act may, in any Act, instrument or document, be cited accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/10-11/34/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:03:28.394041+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."
}