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  "legislation_title": "Criminal Injuries Compensation Act 1995",
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  "text": "An Act to provide for the establishment of a scheme for compensation for criminal injuries.\n[8th November 1995]\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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