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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hallmarking-act-1973/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hallmarking-act-1973/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1973/43",
  "legislation_title": "Hallmarking Act 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hallmarking-act-1973",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make fresh provision for the composition, assaying, marking and description of articles of, or containing, precious metals, and as to agencies for the implementation and enforcement thereof; and for purposes connected with those matters.\n[25th July 1973]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act modified (19.7.1995) by 1995 c. v, s. 3 and by 1995 c. vi, s. 3.Act modified (29.2.1996) by 1996 c. i, s. 1, Sch. para. 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act modified (22.7.2009) by Hallmarking Act 1973 (Application to Palladium) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/2040), art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at 1. 1. 1975 see s. 24(2)"
    }
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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."
}