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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1959/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1959/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/7-8/58",
  "legislation_title": "Finance Act 1959",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1959",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to grant certain duties, to alter other duties, and to amend the law relating to the National Debt and the Public Revenue, and to make further provision in connection with Finance.\n[29th July 1959]",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act partly in force at Royal Assent, partly retrospective, see individual sections; all provisions so far as unrepealed wholly in force at 1.2.1991."
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "For the application of this Act to Northern Ireland see s. 37(4)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/7-8/58/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."
}