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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1970/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1970/33",
  "legislation_title": "Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1970",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to abolish actions for breach of promise of marriage and make provision with respect to the property of, and gifts between, persons who have been engaged to marry; to abolish the right of a husband to claim damages for adultery with his wife; to abolish actions for the enticement or harbouring of a spouse, or for the enticement, seduction or harbouring of a child; to make provision with respect to the maintenance of survivors of void marriages; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.\n[29th May 1970]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "The text of s. 1-3, 7(1)(3)(4) was taken from S.I.F. Group 49:1 (Family Law : Marriage E & W and Abroad), ss. 5, 7, Sch. was taken from S.I.F. Group 122:3 (Tort and Delict: General) and s. 6, 7(1)(3)(4) from S.I.F. Group 116:1 (Succession: Admin. of Estates, E. & W.); provisions omitted from S.I.F. have been dealt with as referred to in other commentary."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/33/introduction",
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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."
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