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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1908/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1908/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw7/8/16",
  "legislation_title": "Finance Act 1908",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1908",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to grant certain duties of Customs and Inland Revenue, to alter other duties, and to amend the Law relating to Customs and Inland Revenue and the National Debt, and to make other provisions for the financial arrangements of the year.\n[1st August 1908]",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (E.W.) (1.8.2007) by Regulatory Reform (Game) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2007), Sch. para. 1(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act: Functions transferred (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Functions of Local Government Board now exercisable by Secretary of State: Minister of Health Act 1919 (c. 21), s. 3(1)(a), S.I. 1951/753, 1900 (1951 I, PP. 1354, 1347), S.I. 1965/319 and 1970/1681 1347),"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1927 (c. 42)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act partly in force at Royal Assent, partly retrospective; all provisions so far as unrepealed wholly in force at 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/8/16/introduction",
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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."
}