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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/promissory-oaths-act-1868/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/promissory-oaths-act-1868/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/31-32/72",
  "legislation_title": "Promissory Oaths Act 1868",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/promissory-oaths-act-1868",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend the Law relating to Promissory Oaths.\n[31st July 1868]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act extended (S.) District Courts (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 20), s. 11(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act amended by Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20, SIF 85), s. 93(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act extended by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 34, 37), s. 76(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Act restricted (E.W) (19.6.1997) by 1997 c. 25, ss. 69, 74(1) (with s. 73(1), Sch. 4 para. 27)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Act applied (6.5.1999) by 1998 c. 46, s. 84(4)(a) (with s. 126(3)-(11)); S.I. 1998/3178, art. 2(2), Sch. 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."
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