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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-of-wales-act-1998/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/38",
  "legislation_title": "Government of Wales Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-of-wales-act-1998",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to establish and make provision about the National Assembly for Wales and the offices of Auditor General for Wales and Welsh Administration Ombudsman; to reform certain Welsh public bodies and abolish certain other Welsh public bodies; and for connected purposes.\n[31st July 1998]\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:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act: modified (7.7.2005 for W.) Higher Education Act 2004 (c. 8), ss. 44(6), 52; S.I. 2005/1833, art. 4(b) (as amended by S.I. 2006/1660, art. 2)"
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act: modified (E.W.) (26.5.2006) by Transport (Wales) Act 2006 (c. 5), ss. 5(9), 12 ; S.I. 2006/1403, art. 2(2)(e)"
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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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