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  "legislation_title": "Deer (Scotland) Act 1996",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to consolidate the legislation relating to deer in Scotland.\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:—",
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