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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-act-1996/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/48",
  "legislation_title": "Damages Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-act-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make new provision in relation to damages for personal injury, including injury resulting in death.\n[24th July 1996]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act: transfer of functions (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), Sch. 17 para. 15 (with arts. 28-31)"
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    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at 24. 9. 1996 see s. 8(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "Act extends to UK except s. 3 which extends to E.W. & N.I. only see s. 8(2)"
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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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