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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/malicious-communications-act-1988/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/27",
  "legislation_title": "Malicious Communications Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/malicious-communications-act-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make provision for the punishment of persons who send or deliver letters or other articles for the purpose of causing distress or anxiety.\n[29th July 1988]\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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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/27/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."
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