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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hypnotism-act-1952/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hypnotism-act-1952/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6and1Eliz2/15-16/46",
  "legislation_title": "Hypnotism Act 1952",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hypnotism-act-1952",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Short title, extent and commencement.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Hypnotism Act 1952.\n(2) This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.\n(3) This Act shall come into force on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and fifty-three.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 2(4) substituted (E.W.) by Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (c. 30, SIF 81:1) , s. 1 , Sch. 2 para. 1"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6and1Eliz2/15-16/46/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:17:26.042525+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}