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  "legislation_title": "Non-Parochial Registers Act 1840",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act for enabling Courts of Justice to admit Non-parochial Registers as evidence of Births or Baptisms, Deaths or Burials, and Marriages.\n[10th August 1840.]",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Short title given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)"
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      "text": "Preamble, which recites appointment of commissioners to inquire into registers or records other than parochial registers and their report of commissioners, omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1890 (c. 51)"
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