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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-enlistment-act-1870/section-25",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/33-34/90",
  "legislation_title": "Foreign Enlistment Act 1870",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-enlistment-act-1870",
  "path": "section/25",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Power of Secretary of State or executive authority to grant search warrant.",
  "text": "The Secretary of State or the chief executive authority may, by warrant, empower any person to enter any dockyard or other place within Her Majesty’s dominions and inquire as to the destination of any ship which may appear to him to be intended to be employed in the naval or military service of any foreign state at war with a friendly state, and to search such ship.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed (N.I.) by Statute Law Revision (Northern Ireland) Act 1976 (c. 12), Sch. Pt. IV"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/33-34/90/section/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:54:26.746160+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}