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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/10-11/81",
  "legislation_title": "Administration of Justice Act 1920",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1920",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend the law with respect to the administration of justice and . . . to facilitate the reciprocal enforcement of judgments and awards in the United Kingdom and other parts of His Majesty’s Dominions or Territories under His Majesty’s protection . . .\n[23rd December 1920]",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1927 (c. 42), Sch. Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 9–14, 21 was taken from S.I.F. Group 45:3 (Enforcement: External Judgements) and ss. 15, 21(1)(3) from S.I.F. Group 37 (Courts: Supreme Court, England and Wales); provisions omitted from S.I.F. have been dealt with as referred to in other commentary."
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  "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."
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