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  "legislation_title": "Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000",
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  "text": "(1) The Speaker’s Committee shall, at least once in each year, make to the House of Commons a report on the exercise by the Committee of their functions.\n(2) For the purposes of the law of defamation the publication of any matter by the Speaker’s Committee in making such a report shall be absolutely privileged.",
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