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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989-amendment-female-genital-mutilation-act-2019/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2019/10",
  "legislation_title": "Children Act 1989 (Amendment) (Female Genital Mutilation) Act 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989-amendment-female-genital-mutilation-act-2019",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend the Children Act 1989 to provide that certain proceedings under Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 are family proceedings.\n[15th March 2019]\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:—",
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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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