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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-and-justice-act-2009/section-73",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/25",
  "legislation_title": "Coroners and Justice Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-and-justice-act-2009",
  "path": "section/73",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "73",
  "heading": "Abolition of common law libel offences etc",
  "text": "The following offences under the common law of England and Wales and the common law of Northern Ireland are abolished—\n(a) the offences of sedition and seditious libel;\n(b) the offence of defamatory libel;\n(c) the offence of obscene libel.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/25/section/73",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:10:44.377194+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."
}