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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-expenditure-and-receipts-act-1968/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-expenditure-and-receipts-act-1968/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/14",
  "legislation_title": "Public Expenditure and Receipts Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-expenditure-and-receipts-act-1968",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to increase contributions payable under the National Insurance Act 1965 and the National Health Service Contributions Act 1965, and to strengthen the provisions of the former Act as to enforcement; to restrict the enactments providing for the supply of milk to school children; to provide compensation for civil defence employees in connection with the reduction of activities under section 2 of the Civil Defence Act 1948; to provide for increasing, or for abolishing in the interests of economy, certain fees and other payments; and to amend section 3 of the Local Employment Act 1960 as regards consultation with the advisory committee; and for purposes connected therewith.\n[20th March 1968]",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at Royal Assent."
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "Act except s. 5 does not extend to Northern Ireland see s. 7(2), 5(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/14/introduction",
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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."
}