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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-personal-injury-order-2017/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-personal-injury-order-2017/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/206",
  "legislation_title": "The Damages (Personal Injury) Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-personal-injury-order-2017",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Damages, England And Wales\nMade 24th February 2017\nLaid before Parliament 27th February 2017\nComing into force 20th March 2017\nThe Lord Chancellor makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1 of the Damages Act 1996, having consulted the Government Actuary and the Treasury in accordance with section 1(4) of that Act:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 48. Section 1(5) was substituted by article 4 of, and paragraph 126 of Schedule 2 to, S.I. 1999/1820. Section 1(6) was inserted by article 15(5) of, and paragraphs 54 and 55 of Part 1 of Schedule 18 to, S.I. 2010/976."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/206/introduction",
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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."
}