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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prevention-of-damage-by-rabbits-act-1939/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/2-3/43",
  "legislation_title": "Prevention of Damage by Rabbits Act 1939",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prevention-of-damage-by-rabbits-act-1939",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make provision for the prevention of damage by rabbits; and to amend the law relating to the use of poison and the use of spring traps above ground for the purpose of killing hares or rabbits.\n[28th July 1939]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "For the extent of this Act see S. 6(3)"
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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."
}