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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lunacy-regulation-ireland-act-1871/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/34-35/22",
  "legislation_title": "Lunacy Regulation (Ireland) Act 1871",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lunacy-regulation-ireland-act-1871",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend the Law in Ireland relating to Commissions of Lunacy, and the proceeding under the same, and the management of the Estates of Lunatics ; and to provide for the visiting and the protection of the Property of Lunatics in Ireland ; and for other purposes.\n[25th May 1871]\nWHEREAS it is expedient to amend the law relating to Commissions of Lunacy, and the proceedings under the same, and to provide more effectually for the visiting of persons found or supposed lunatic, and to make the other provisions herein-after contained for the institution, speeding, and deciding of inquiries de lunatico, and with respect to certain officers in lunacy and otherwise :\nBe it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/34-35/22/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:53:53.499337+00:00"
  },
  "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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