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  "title": "Charitable Trusts (Validation) Act 1954",
  "short_title": "Charitable Trusts (Validation) Act 1954",
  "long_title": "An Act to validate under the law of England and Wales, and restrict to charitable objects, certain instruments taking effect before the sixteenth day of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-two, and providing for property to be held or applied for objects partly but not exclusively charitable, and to enable corresponding provision to be made by the Parliament of Northern Ireland.",
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