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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-records-act-1958/section-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-records-act-1958/section-13.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/6-7/51",
  "legislation_title": "Public Records Act 1958",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-records-act-1958",
  "path": "section/13",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Short title, repeals and commencement.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Public Records Act 1958.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) This Act shall come into force on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S.13(2) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c. 22), Sch. Pt. XI"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/6-7/51/section/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:12:46.811020+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."
}