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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-police-courts-act-1840/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-police-courts-act-1840/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/3-4/84",
  "legislation_title": "Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1840",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-police-courts-act-1840",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act for better defining the Powers of Justices within the Metropolitan Police District.\n[7th August 1840]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Short title given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Preamble (which recited Metropolitan Police Act 1839 (c. 47) and Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1839 (c. 71)) repealed by Administration of Justice Act 1964 (c. 42), Sch. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Act repealed (prosp.) by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c. 15), ss. 86, 146, 148(5), Sch. 14 para. 7, Sch. 23 Pt. 4 (with s. 89)"
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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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