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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cleansing-of-persons-act-1897/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cleansing-of-persons-act-1897/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/60-61/31",
  "legislation_title": "Cleansing of Persons Act 1897",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cleansing-of-persons-act-1897",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to permit Local Authorities to provide Cleansing and Disinfection for Persons infested with Vermin.\n[6th August 1897]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (E.W.) by Public Health Act 1936 (c. 49), s. 346, Sch. 3 Pt. V and Public Health (London) Act 1936 (c. 50), Sch. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Act repealed (S.) (1.10.2009) by Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008 (asp 5), s. 128(2), Sch. 3 Pt. 1 (with ss. 126(2), 127); S.S.I. 2009/319, art. 2(a), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:28:23.316119+00:00"
  },
  "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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