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  "legislation": "apgb/Geo3/39/37",
  "legislation_title": "Offences at Sea Act 1799",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offences-at-sea-act-1799",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act for remedying certain Defects in the Law respecting Offences committed upon the High Seas.\n[10th May 1799]",
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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      "text": "Preamble repealed by Criminal Law Act 1967 (c. 58), Sch. 3 Pt. I"
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