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  "legislation": "ukpga/2005/9",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Capacity Act 2005",
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  "path": "part/1",
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  "heading": "Persons who lack capacity",
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  "status": null,
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      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. 1 applied (1.12.2017) by The Court of Protection Rules 2017 (S.I. 2017/1035), rules 23.3, 24.6(1)"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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