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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-clauses-consolidation-act-1845/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/8-9/16",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Clauses Consolidation Act 1845",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-clauses-consolidation-act-1845",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act for consolidating in One Act certain Provisions usually inserted in Acts with respect to the Constitution of Companies incorporated for carrying on Undertakings of a public Nature.\n[8th May 1845]",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act excluded by Water Act 1945 (c. 42), s. 43"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1891 (c. 67)"
    },
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act excluded (E.W.) (1.12.1991) by Statutory Water Companies Act 1991 (c. 58, SIF:130), ss. 10(1), 17(2)Act excluded (E.W.) (27.1.1992) by S.I. 1991/2912, art. 2(1)Act modified (E.W.) (1.12.1991) by Statutory Water Companies Act 1991 (c. 58, SIF:130), ss. 10(5), 17(2)Act excluded (9.5.1991) by Shard Bridge Act 1991 (c. v), ss. 5-8, 11Act excluded (5.7.1994) by 1994 c. viii, s. 20(1)"
    },
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act incorporated in part (with modifications) (5.7.1994) by 1994 c. viii, s. 4(1)(a)(i)(ii)(iv)"
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Act excluded (E.W.S.) (30.9.2009) by Mersey Docks and Harbour Revision Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/2604), art. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Act excluded (E.W.S.) (30.9.2009) by Manchester Ship Canal Harbour Revision Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/2579), art. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Act excluded (27.4.2017) by Faversham Oyster Fishery Company Act 2017 (c. i), s. 5 (with ss. 17, 18, 20(8))"
    },
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at Royal Assent."
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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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