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  "legislation_title": "Libel Act 1843",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend the Law respecting defamatory Words and Libel.[24th August 1843]",
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      "text": "Short title given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)"
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      "text": "Act amended by Libel Act 1845 (c. 75), s. 2"
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      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1891 (c. 67)"
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      "text": "This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland."
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