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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/malicious-damage-act-1861/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/24-25/97",
  "legislation_title": "Malicious Damage Act 1861",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/malicious-damage-act-1861",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to consolidate and amend the Statute Law of England and Ireland relating to Malicious Injuries to Property.\n[6th August 1861]",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Short title given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19)"
    },
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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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  "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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