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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-amendment-act-1981/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/27",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-amendment-act-1981",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend the law relating to the restriction of reports of committal proceedings in magistrates’ courts in cases where there is more than one accused.\n[2nd July 1981]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (prosp.) by Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44), ss. 332, 336(3), Sch. 37 Pt. 4"
    }
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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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