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  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/9",
  "legislation_title": "Judicial Pensions Act 1959",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-act-1959",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend the law with respect to the pensions and other benefits attaching to certain high judicial offices, to regulate the age of retirement from such offices, and to increase certain pensions and other benefits granted to or in respect of persons who have held such offices.\n[17th December 1959]",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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