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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-service-release-of-conscientious-objectors-act-1946/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/9-10/38",
  "legislation_title": "National Service (Release of Conscientious Objectors) Act 1946",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-service-release-of-conscientious-objectors-act-1946",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to enable conscientious objectors conditionally registered under the National Service Acts, 1939 to 1942, to be released, before the date on which the present emergency is deemed to end for the purposes of those Acts, from the condition subject to which they were registered.\n[26th March 1946]\nBe it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/9-10/38/introduction",
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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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