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  "title": "The Deregulation (Special Hours Certificates) Order 1996",
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  "long_title": "This Order amends the Licensing Act 1964 to provide that in premises where a special hours certificate is in force an hour is not lost on the day the clocks go forward. It also enables licensing justices and magistrates' courts to grant provisional special hours certificates.",
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