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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/exempt-charities-order-1996/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1637",
  "legislation_title": "The Exempt Charities Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/exempt-charities-order-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "CHARITIES\nMade 26th June 1996\nComing into force 1st August 1996\nAt the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 26th day of June 1996\nPresent,\nThe Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council\nHer Majesty, in pursuance of paragraph (c) of Schedule 2 to the Charities Act 1993, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1993 c. 10."
    }
  ],
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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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