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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-act-1911/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-act-1911/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/1-2/46",
  "legislation_title": "Copyright Act 1911",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-act-1911",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend and consolidate the Law relating to Copyright.\n[16th December 1911]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act repealed in so far as it has effect in Jersey (coming into force in accordance with art. 1 of the amending S.I.) by The Copyright (Repeal of the Copyright Act 1911) (Jersey) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1753), art. 2"
    },
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force in the United Kingdom at 1.7.1912 by s. 37(2) (now repealed)"
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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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