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  "id": "ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/52",
  "title": "Enemy Property Act 1953",
  "short_title": "Enemy Property Act 1953",
  "long_title": "An Act to make provision as respects things done, in relation to enemy property or property treated as enemy property, in excess of the powers conferred by the law relating to trading with the enemy, and as respects income from moneys invested by custodians of enemy property: as respects copyrights, rights in inventions and designs, and other rights in or in connection with which German enemy interests subsisted, or were properly treated as subsisting, during the period of the war with Germany, as respects property allocated by way of reparation from Germany and as respects other property seized from Germany; and for puposes connected with the matters aforesaid.",
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  "number": "52",
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  "date": "1953-10-29",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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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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