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  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/44",
  "legislation_title": "Foreign Marriage (Amendment) Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-marriage-amendment-act-1988",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend the Foreign Marriage Act 1892 and to repeal certain enactments which are spent relating to the validation of marriages of British subjects solemnised outside the United Kingdom.\n[2nd November 1988]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’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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