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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-records-act-1967/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-records-act-1967/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1967/44",
  "legislation_title": "Public Records Act 1967",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-records-act-1967",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to reduce the period of fifty years specified in section 5(1) of the Public Records Act 1958 as that for which certain public records must have been in existence for them to be available for public inspection.\n[14th July 1967]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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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