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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/house-of-commons-disqualification-act-1975/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1975/24",
  "legislation_title": "House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/house-of-commons-disqualification-act-1975",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to disqualification for membership of the House of Commons.\n[8th May 1975]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at Royal Assent"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "The originating text of this Act on SLD is derived from Reprint No. 12, containing those amendments that were in force on 1.1.1991"
    }
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  "provenance": {
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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."
}