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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/50-51/45",
  "legislation_title": "Metropolitan Police Act 1887",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Short title.",
  "text": "This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Police Act 1887, and this Act and the Metropolitan Police Acts 1829 to 1886, may be cited together as the Metropolitan Police Acts 1829 to 1887.",
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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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