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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-and-deaths-registration-act-1953/section-44",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/20",
  "legislation_title": "Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-and-deaths-registration-act-1953",
  "path": "section/44",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Short title, extent and commencement.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953.\n(2) This Act shall not extend to Scotland or to Northern Ireland.\n(3) ThisAct shall come into force on the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and fifty–three.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/20/section/44",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:16:51.735695+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."
}