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  "legislation_title": "The Equality Act 2010 (Obtaining Information) Order 2010",
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  "number": "6",
  "heading": "National security",
  "text": "For the purposes of section 138(5)(d) and (e) of the Act the circumstances specified are where R reasonably asserts that the reason for failing to answer or for giving an evasive or equivocal answer is the purpose of safeguarding national security.",
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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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