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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-from-sex-based-harassment-in-public-act-2023/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2023/47",
  "legislation_title": "Protection from Sex-based Harassment in Public Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-from-sex-based-harassment-in-public-act-2023",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make provision about causing intentional harassment, alarm or distress to a person in public where the behaviour is done because of that person’s sex; and for connected purposes.\n[18th September 2023]\nBe it enacted by the King’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",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/47/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:51:51.154612+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."
}