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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-heritage-act-1996/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-heritage-act-1996/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/42",
  "legislation_title": "Railway Heritage Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-heritage-act-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make further provision for and in connection with the preservation of railway records and artefacts.\n[18th July 1996]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’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": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act function transferred (1.4.2013) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of the Railway Heritage Committee) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/64), arts. 1(2), 2(2) (with art. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act not in force at Royal assent; Act wholly in force at 18.9.1996 see s. 8(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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