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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/11-12/29",
  "legislation_title": "Church of Scotland Act 1921",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to declare the lawfulness of certain Articles declaratory of the Constitution of the Church of Scotland in matters spiritual prepared with the authority of the General Assembly of the Church.\n[28th July 1921]\nWhereas certain articles declaratory of the constitution of the Church of Scotland in matters spiritual have been prepared with the authority of the General Assembly of the Church, with a view to facilitate the union of other Churches with the Church of Scotland, which articles are set out in the Schedule to this Act, and together with any modifications of the said articles or additions thereto made in accordance therewith are hereinafter in this Act referred to as “the Declaratory Articles”:\nAnd whereas it is expedient that any doubts as to the lawfulness of the Declaratory Articles should be removed:",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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