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  "legislation_title": "Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make in relation to marriage and civil partnership in England and Wales provision about divorce, dissolution and separation; and for connected purposes.\n[25th June 2020]\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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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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