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  "legislation": "ukpga/1972/65",
  "legislation_title": "National Debt Act 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-debt-act-1972",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to the national debt and the Director of Savings, with corrections and minor improvements made under the Consolidation of Enactments (Procedure) Act 1949.\n[9th August 1972]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at Royal Assent."
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      "text": "For the extension of this Act to the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man see s. 19."
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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