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  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-act-1979/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/21",
  "legislation_title": "Forestry Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-act-1979",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to re-state the power of the Forestry Commissioners to make grants and loans; and to provide for the metrication of enactments relating to forestry and forest lands.\n[29th March 1979]",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act: powers transferred (1.7.1999) by virtue of S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch.1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at 29.5.1979, see s. 3(3)"
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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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