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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dockyard-ports-regulation-act-1865/section-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/28-29/125",
  "legislation_title": "Dockyard Ports Regulation Act 1865",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dockyard-ports-regulation-act-1865",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Appointment of Queen’s harbour masters.",
  "text": "The Secretary of State may from time to time appoint for each dockyard port a fit person to superintend the execution of this Act, and otherwise to protect the port, to be called the Queen’s harbour master for the respective port.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Defence (Transfer of Functions) Act 1964 (c. 15), ss. 1(1)-(3), 3(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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