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  "legislation": "ukpga/1974/20",
  "legislation_title": "Dumping at Sea Act 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dumping-at-sea-act-1974",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to control dumping in the sea.\n[27th June 1974]\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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