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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pilotage-act-1987/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pilotage-act-1987/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1987/21",
  "legislation_title": "Pilotage Act 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pilotage-act-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make new provision in respect of pilotage.\n[15th May 1987]\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:—",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act applied (30.11.2020) by The Harwich Haven and Walton Backwaters (Application of the Pilotage Act 1987) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/1187), arts. 1, 2"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1987/21/introduction",
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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."
}