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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-debt-act-1870/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-debt-act-1870/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/33-34/71",
  "legislation_title": "National Debt Act 1870",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-debt-act-1870",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act for consolidating, with Amendments, certain Enactments relating to the National Debt.\n[9th August 1870]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act extended by National Debt (Conversion) Act 1888 (c. 2), s. 2(5); Tithe Act 1936 (c. 43), s. 24(7); Bank of England Act 1946 (c. 27), Sch. 1 para. 11; Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946 (c. 59), s. 33(7) and National Loans Act 1968 (c. 13), s. 16(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Power to extend Act with modifications conferred by National Debt Act 1972 (c. 65), s. 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1893 (c. 54)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/33-34/71/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:54:42.422824+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}