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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/39-40/36",
  "legislation_title": "Customs Consolidation Act 1876",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/customs-consolidation-act-1876",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to consolidate the Customs Laws.\n[24th July 1876]",
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      "text": "Act wholly in force at Royal Assent."
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      "text": "The text of ss.42, 43 was taken from S.I.F. Group 40:3 (Customs and Excise: Import and Export Controls), s. 141 from S.I.F. Group 111 (Shipping), and ss.277, 285 from S.I.F. Group 40:1: (Customs and Excise: Customs and Excise Duties); provisions omitted from S.I.F. have been dealt with as referred to in other commentary."
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      "text": "This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland."
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