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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domicile-and-matrimonial-proceedings-act-1973/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1973/45",
  "legislation_title": "Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domicile-and-matrimonial-proceedings-act-1973",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend the law relating to the domicile of married women and persons not of full age, to matters connected with domicile and to jurisdiction in matrimonial proceedings including actions for reduction of consistorial decrees; to make further provision about the recognition of divorces and legal separations; and for purposes connected therewith.\n[25th July 1973]",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at 1. 1. 1974 see s. 17(5)."
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "Act: Pt. II extends to England and Wales only; Pt. III extends to Scotland only; Pt. IV extends to Northern Ireland only and Pt. V extends to the United Kingdom."
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/45/introduction",
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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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