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  "legislation_title": "Administrative Provisions Act (Northern Ireland) 1926",
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  "text": "References in this Act to any department of the Government of the United Kingdom shall be construed as including references to the Secretary of State, in any case where immediately before the appointed day the powers and duties of that department were, as respects Northern Ireland, exercisable by the Secretary of State in pursuance of an Order of His Majesty in Council.",
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