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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-packets-customs-and-excise-regulations-1986/regulation-17",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1986/260",
  "legislation_title": "The Postal Packets (Customs and Excise) Regulations 1986",
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  "heading": null,
  "text": "If the Commissioners require any postal packet to be delivered to them on the ground that any goods contained in it are liable to forfeiture under the customs and excise Acts (including these Regulations) the proper officer of the Post Office shall deliver the packet to the proper officer of Customs and Excise.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/1149",
      "affecting_title": "The Postal Services Act 2000 (Consequential Modifications No. 1) Order 2001"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/260/regulation/17",
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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."
}