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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/officers-commissions-act-1862/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/25-26/4",
  "legislation_title": "Officers Commissions Act 1862",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/officers-commissions-act-1862",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to enable Her Majesty to issue Commissions to the Officers of Her Majesty’s Land Forces and Royal Marines, and to Adjutants and Quartermasters of Her Militia and Volunteer Forces, without affixing Her Royal Sign Manual thereto.\n[11th April 1862]",
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      "text": "Short title “The Officers Commissions Act 1862” given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)"
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act applied by S.R. & O. 1908/256 (Rev. XXII, p. 523; 1908, p. 963) and S.R. & O. 1925/415 (Rev. I, p. 1089; 1925, p. 2)"
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      "text": "Preamble repealed by S.I. 1964/488"
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Words of enactment and certain other words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14)"
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      "text": "Act amended (women's services) by Armed Forces Act 1981 (c. 55, SIF 7:1), s. 20, Sch. 3 Pt. I para. 1"
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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