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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1908/section-43",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw7/8/48",
  "legislation_title": "Post Office Act 1908",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1908",
  "path": "section/43",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": "Exemption of officers of Post Office from certain offices",
  "text": "Notwithstanding anything in any other Act, neither the Postmaster-General nor any officer of the Post Office shall be compelled to serve as a mayor or sheriff, or in any ecclesiastical or corporate or parochial or other public office or employment, or on any jury or inquest, or in the militia.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/8/48/section/43",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:21:11.523677+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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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}