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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-jurisdiction-act-1975/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-jurisdiction-act-1975/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1975/59",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Jurisdiction Act 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-jurisdiction-act-1975",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to create extra-territorial offences under the law of Northern Ireland, to amend as respects those and other offences the criminal law of Northern Ireland, to provide for obtaining evidence in Northern Ireland for the trial of offences in the Republic of Ireland and to amend the Backing of Warrants (Republic of Ireland) Act 1965, the Explosive Substances Act 1883 and the law about the prosecution of offences.\n[7th August 1975]",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act partly in force at Royal Assent see s. 14(2)(3); Act wholly in force at 1.6. 1976."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/59/introduction",
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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."
}