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  "legislation_title": "Import, Export and Customs Powers (Defence) Act 1939",
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  "text": "An Act to provide for controlling the importation, exportation and carriage coastwise of goods and the shipment of goods as ships’ stores; to provide for facilitating the enforcement of the law relating to the matters aforesaid and the law relating to trading with the enemy; and to provide for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.\n[1st September 1939]",
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  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Act excluded by S.I. 1980/565, art. 2, Sch. 2, Pt. II"
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