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  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/62",
  "legislation_title": "Oil and Pipelines Act 1985",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to provide for the establishment and functions of a body corporate to be called the Oil and Pipelines Agency, for the vesting in that Agency of the property, rights and liabilities of the British National Oil Corporation and for the subsequent dissolution of that Corporation.\n[30th October 1985]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
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  "status": null,
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      "text": "Act power to repeal conferred (E.W.S.) (30.4.2015) by Energy Act 2013 (c. 32), ss. 129(1), 156(1) (with s. 130); S.I. 2015/817, art. 2(a)"
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      "text": "Act not in force at Royal Assent see s. 8(2) ; Act wholly in force on 27.03.1986."
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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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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