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  "legislation_title": "Criminal Defence Service Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-act-2006",
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  "text": "An Act to make provision about representation funded as part of the Criminal Defence Service.\n[30th March 2006]\nBe it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
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