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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/naval-discipline-act-1860/section-XXIII",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/23-24/123",
  "legislation_title": "Naval Discipline Act 1860",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/naval-discipline-act-1860",
  "path": "section/XXIII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XXIII",
  "heading": "Penalty for profane Swearing and other Immoralities.",
  "text": "Every Person subject to this Act who shall be guilty of profane Oaths, Cursings, Execrations, Drunkenness, Uncleanness, or other scandalous Actions in derogation of God's Honour and Corruption of good Manners, shall be dismissed from Her Majesty's Service, or suffer such other Punishment as is herein-after mentioned.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/23-24/123/section/XXIII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:11:08.179985+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."
}