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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cable-and-broadcasting-act-1984/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cable-and-broadcasting-act-1984/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/46",
  "legislation_title": "Cable and Broadcasting Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cable-and-broadcasting-act-1984",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to provide for the establishment and functions of a Cable Authority and to make other provision with respect to cable programme services; to amend the Broadcasting Act 1981, to provide for the establishment and functions of a Satellite Broadcasting Board and to make other provision with respect to broadcasting services; and for connected purposes.\n[26th July 1984]\nBE IT ENACTED by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act repealed by Broadcasting Act 1990 (c. 42, SIF 96), ss. 4(6), 87(6), 134, 203(3)(4), Sch. 12 Pt. II para. 1, Sch. 21, Sch. 22 para. 4 (the repeal being in force 1.1.1991 subject to the provisions of art. 3 of S.I. 1990/2347)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act not in force at Royal Assent see s. 59(4) now repealed; Act partly in force at 6. 4. 1987 see S.I. 1987/672."
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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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