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  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-act-1937/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw8and1Geo6/1/12",
  "legislation_title": "Firearms Act 1937",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-act-1937",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to consolidate the provisions of the Firearms Acts, 1920 to 1936, relating to firearms, imitation firearms and other weapons and to ammunition.\n[18th February 1937]\nBe it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
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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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