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  "legislation_title": "Prisoners (Return to Custody) Act 1995",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make provision, by the creation of an offence and the conferring of powers of entry, for the punishment and return to lawful custody of persons unlawfully at large.\n[28th June 1995]\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:—",
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