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  "title": "Fireworks Act 1951",
  "long_title": "An Act to confer powers of seizure where dangerous fireworks are found, and powers to determine or amend licences or certificates for explosives factories where fireworks are made, to make provision for the marking of fireworks and containers in which fireworks are kept and to amend the law relating to licences for small firework factories; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.",
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      "heading": "Kinds of Fireworks which need not be marked",
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