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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/perjury-act-1911/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/perjury-act-1911/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/1-2/6",
  "legislation_title": "Perjury Act 1911",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/perjury-act-1911",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to consolidate and simplify the Law relating to Perjury and kindred offences.\n[29th June 1911]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act amended by Criminal Justice Act 1967 (c. 80), s. 89(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Reference to penal servitude to be construed as reference to imprisonment: Criminal Justice Act 1948 (c. 58), s. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act amended as to mode of trial as to all offences (except offences under ss. 1, 3, 4) by Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43), s. 106(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act modified (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), ss. 80(4), 263(2); S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(1), Sch. 1"
    }
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  },
  "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."
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