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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo3/43/140",
  "legislation_title": "Habeas Corpus Act 1803",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/habeas-corpus-act-1803",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to enable the Judges of His Majesty’s Courts of Record at Westminster to award Writs of Habeas Corpus for bringing persons detained in Gaol before Courts Martial, and the several Commissioners therein mentioned.\n[11th August 1803]",
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      "text": "Reference to judges of the courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas and to barons of the Court of Exchequer to be construed as reference to a judge of the High Court: Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925 (c. 49), ss. 18, 224(1)"
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      "text": "Functions of commissioners for auditing the publick accounts now exercisable by Comptroller and Auditor General: Exchequer and Audit Departments Act 1866 (c. 39), s. 5"
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