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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1971/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1971/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/43",
  "legislation_title": "Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1971",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to extend in certain cases the time limit for bringing legal proceedings where damages are claimed which consist of or include damages for personal injuries or in respect of a person’s death, and to amend accordingly the Limitation Act 1963; to provide that in assessing damages for widows in actions arising from the death of their husbands, remarriage and prospects of remarriage shall be left out of account; to repeal section 19 of the Administration of Justice Act 1965; and for purposes connected therewith.\n[1st July 1971]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/43/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."
}