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  "legislation_title": "Higher Education and Research Act 2017",
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  "heading": "The Office for Students",
  "text": "(1) A body corporate called the Office for Students is established.\n(2) In this Act that body is referred to as “the OfS”.\n(3) Schedule 1 contains further provision about the OfS.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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