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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-ceremony-prescribed-words-act-1996/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/34",
  "legislation_title": "Marriage Ceremony (Prescribed Words) Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-ceremony-prescribed-words-act-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to provide alternatives for the declaration and words of contract prescribed by law for marriage ceremonies in registered buildings and register offices, on approved premises and in certain other circumstances.\n[18th July 1996]\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:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at 1.2.1997; Act not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 2(2); Act wholly in force at 1.2.1997 by S.I. 1996/2506, art. 2"
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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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