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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-debt-act-1870/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-debt-act-1870/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/33-34/71",
  "legislation_title": "National Debt Act 1870",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-debt-act-1870",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Accounting by Registrar of Government Stock",
  "text": "The Registrar of Government Stock shall from time to time render his accounts relating to the money made available to him for the payment of the dividends on stock and those accounts shall be audited, as the Treasury from time to time direct, but the Treasury may, if they think fit, dispense with such audit.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 16 substituted (1.7.2004) by The Government Stock (Consequential and Transitional Provision) (No. 2) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1662), art. 1, Sch. paras. 1, 3(6) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 16 substituted (15.11.2004) by Government Stock (Consequential and Transitional Provision) (No.3) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2744), art. 1, Sch. para. 1(5) (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/33-34/71/section/16",
    "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."
}