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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/harbours-loans-act-1972/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/harbours-loans-act-1972/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1972/16",
  "legislation_title": "Harbours (Loans) Act 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/harbours-loans-act-1972",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to provide for loans to harbour authorities to enable them to pay certain debts; to provide for the payment to the Secretary of State of the amount of past loans made by him for that purpose to such authorities; to impose a limit on loans made for that purpose to harbour authorities, on such payments and on loans made under section 11 of the Harbours Act 1964, in substitution for the existing limit on the latter; and for connected purposes.\n[23rd March 1972]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/16/introduction",
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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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