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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-evidence-act-1979/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-evidence-act-1979/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/16",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Evidence Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-evidence-act-1979",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend paragraph (f)(iii) of the proviso to section 1 of the Criminal Evidence Act 1898 and corresponding enactments extending to Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n[22nd March 1979]",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (N.I.) (3.4.2006) by The Criminal Justice (Evidence) (Northern Ireland) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1501 (N.I. 10)), arts. 1(3), 46(2), Sch. 2 (with art. 43); S.R. 2006/63, art. 2"
    }
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  "provenance": {
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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."
}