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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-abduction-act-1984/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/37",
  "legislation_title": "Child Abduction Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-abduction-act-1984",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend the criminal law relating to the abduction of children\n[12th July1984]\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": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
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      "text": "Act wholly in force at 12.10.1984 see s. 13(2)"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/37/introduction",
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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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