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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/exchequer-and-audit-departments-act-1866/section-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/29-30/39",
  "legislation_title": "Exchequer and Audit Departments Act 1866",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/exchequer-and-audit-departments-act-1866",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Definition of terms.",
  "text": "In this Act ... “principal accountants” shall mean those who receive issues directly from the accounts of Her Majesty’s Exchequer at the Bank of England; ...",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Definitions repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14)"
    },
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 2 substituted (1.4.2001) by 2000 c. 20, s. 29, Sch. 1 para. 2; S.I. 2000/3349, art. 3 (with art. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 2 repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 9 Group 2"
    }
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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."
}