{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-act-1896/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-act-1896/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/59-60/25",
  "legislation_title": "Friendly Societies Act 1896",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-act-1896",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to consolidate the Law relating to Friendly and other Societies.\n[7th August 1896]",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act repealed (so far as unrepealed) (N.I.) (1.7.1992) by S.I. 1992/807 (N.I. 5), art. 108(3), Sch.6; S.R. 1992/212, art.2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act in force at 1.1.1897 by s. 108 (now repealed)"
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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."
}