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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-telecommunications-act-1981/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/38",
  "legislation_title": "British Telecommunications Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-telecommunications-act-1981",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to establish a public corporation to be called British Telecommunications; to make provision with respect to its functions and to transfer to it certain property, rights and liabilities of the Post Office; to make further provision with respect to the Post Office; to provide for dealings by the Treasury in the shares of Cable and Wireless Limited; to amend the Telegraphs Acts; and for connected purposes.\n[27th July 1981]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act excluded by Telecommunications Act 1984 (c. 12, SIF 96), s. 109, Sch. 5 para. 12(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act partly in force at Royal Assent; Act wholly in force on 1.10.1981 (day appointed under s. 1(2) (now repealed)) by S.I. 1981/1274."
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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."
}