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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prohibition-of-female-circumcision-act-1985/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prohibition-of-female-circumcision-act-1985/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/38",
  "legislation_title": "Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prohibition-of-female-circumcision-act-1985",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to prohibit female circumcision.\n[16th July 1985]\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:—",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act ceases to have effect (E.W.N.I.) (3.3.2004) by virtue of Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 (c. 31), ss. 7(1), 8(2) (with s. 8(5)); S.I. 2004/286, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Act repealed (S.) (1.9.2005) by Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 8), s. 7(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force on 16.9.1985; see s. 4(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/38/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:00:14.206629+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}