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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charging-orders-act-1979/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charging-orders-act-1979/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/53",
  "legislation_title": "Charging Orders Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charging-orders-act-1979",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make provision for imposing charges to secure payment of money due, or to become due, under judgments or orders of court; to provide for restraining and prohibiting dealings with, and the making of payments in respect of, certain securities; and for connected purposes.\n[6th December 1979]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Power to apply conferred by Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41, SIF 81:1), ss. 22, 142, Sch. 4 para. 28(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act: power to apply conferred (6.3.1992) by Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14), s. 14(3), Sch. 4 para. 19(1)(2)(3)."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act not in force at Royal Assent see s. 8(2); Act wholly in force at 3.6.1980."
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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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