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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/literary-and-scientific-institutions-act-1854/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/17-18/112",
  "legislation_title": "Literary and Scientific Institutions Act 1854",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/literary-and-scientific-institutions-act-1854",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to afford greater Facilities for the Establishment of Institutions for the Promotion of Literature and Science and the Fine Arts, and to provide for their better Regulation.\n[11th August 1854]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Act restricted by Commons Act 1899 (c. 30), s. 22, Sch. 1"
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19)"
    },
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      "label": "C3",
      "text": "This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland"
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      "text": "Act amended (retrospectively) by Reverter of Sites Act 1987 (c.15, SIF 98:1), ss.1(1), 7(1)(b)"
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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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