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  "legislation_title": "Domestic Proceedings (Northern Ireland) Order 1980",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
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      "text": "Order: functions of the Lord Chancellor are transferred to the Department of Justice (12.4.2010) by Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 15(1)(6), Sch. 17 para. 34 (with arts. 28-31); S.I. 2010/977, art. 1(2)"
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