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  "legislation": "apni/1953/14",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1953",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to abolish penal servitude, hard labour and prison divisions and to make further provision for dealing with offenders and for the administration of criminal justice; to amend the law relating to certain criminal offences; to confer powers on courts of quarter sessions with respect to the adjournment of criminal and other appeals pending in such courts; and for purposes connected with the aforesaid matters or any of them.\n[5th May 1953]",
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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."
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