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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/birmingham-assay-office-order-1989/article-16",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/900",
  "legislation_title": "The Birmingham Assay Office Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/birmingham-assay-office-order-1989",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Protection of guardians, wardens and officers from personal liability",
  "text": "No matter or thing done and no contract entered into by the Company, and no matter or thing done by any guardian, warden, officer or employee of the Company acting under the direction of the guardians or the wardens, shall, if the matter or thing were done or the contract were entered into bona fide for the purpose of discharging the functions of the Company, subject them or any of them personally to any action, liability, claim or demand whatsoever; and any expense incurred by any such guardian, warden, officer or employee acting as last aforesaid shall be borne and repaid out of the funds of the Company.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/900/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:43:54.512260+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."
}