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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-office-preparation-and-authentication-of-documents-rules-order-1988/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1162",
  "legislation_title": "The Crown Office (Preparation and Authentication of Documents Rules) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-office-preparation-and-authentication-of-documents-rules-order-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "CLERK OF THE CROWN IN CHANCERY\nMade 6th July 1988\nLaid before Parliament 6th July 1988\nComing into force 1st September 1988\nAT THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, WHITEHALL\nThe 6th day of July 1988\nBy a Committee of the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council\nA Committee of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, comprising the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Privy Seal and the Right Honourable Douglas Hurd, one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by section 5 of the Crown Office Act 1877, do hereby make the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1877 c. 41."
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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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