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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-parishes-scotland-act-1844/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-parishes-scotland-act-1844/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/7-8/44",
  "legislation_title": "New Parishes (Scotland) Act 1844",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-parishes-scotland-act-1844",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to facilitate the disjoining or dividing of extensive or populous Parishes, and the erecting of new Parishes, in Scotland.\n[19th July 1844]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (prosp.) by 2000 asp 5, ss. 76(2), 77(2)(a)(d), Sch. 13 Pt. I (with ss. 58, 62, 75)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Short title given by Short Title Act 1896 (c. 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act amended by United Parishes (Scotland) Act 1868 (c. 30) and United Parishes (Scotland) Act 1876 (c. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Preamble (which recited Scots Act 1706 c. 10) omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1891 (c. 67)"
    }
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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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