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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/navy-and-marines-property-of-deceased-act-1865/section-16",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/28-29/111",
  "legislation_title": "Navy and Marines (Property Of Deceased) Act 1865",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/navy-and-marines-property-of-deceased-act-1865",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Validity of payments, sales, &c. under this Act.",
  "text": "Every payment or application of money, and every sale or other disposition of property, made by the Admiralty in pursuance of this Act, or of any Order in Council for carrying this Act into effect, shall be good and valid as against all persons whomsoever; and the Admiralty shall be by virtue of this Act absolutely discharged from all liability in respect of the money or other property so paid, applied, or disposed of.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/28-29/111/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:02:46.802562+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."
}