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  "legislation": "apni/1961/5",
  "legislation_title": "Legitimacy Act (Northern Ireland) 1961",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legitimacy-act-northern-ireland-1961",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend the Legitimacy Act (Northern Ireland), 1928, to legitimate the children of certain void marriages, and to provide for the revocation of adoption orders in cases of legitimation and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.\n[4th July 1961]",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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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