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  "legislation": "nia/2016/12",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Social Care (Control of Data Processing) Act (Northern Ireland) 2016",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make provision about control of data processing in relation to health and social care.\n[11th April 2016]\nBE IT ENACTED by being passed by the Northern Ireland Assembly and assented to by Her Majesty as follows:",
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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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