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  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/40",
  "legislation_title": "Party Wall etc. Act 1996",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make provision in respect of party walls, and excavation and construction in proximity to certain buildings or structures; and for connected purposes.\n[18th July 1996]\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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      "text": "Act modified (23.2.2017) by High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Act 2017 (c. 7), s. 70(1), Sch. 23 para. 7"
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