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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/oyster-fisheries-scotland-act-1840/section-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/3-4/74",
  "legislation_title": "Oyster Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1840",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/oyster-fisheries-scotland-act-1840",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Act not to prevent persons exercising rights they now enjoy.",
  "text": "Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall prevent or be construed to prevent any person or persons from exercising any right which may now be lawfully exercised within the limits of any such fishery.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/3-4/74/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:40:53.366460+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}