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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2016/9780111142967",
  "legislation_title": "The European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016",
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  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Prosecution of offences committed outside the United Kingdom",
  "text": "In section 178 of the 1983 Act the reference to an offence under that Act includes an offence under any provision of that Act as applied by this Schedule.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 178 was substituted by paragraph 62 of Schedule 4 to the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c.50)."
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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