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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/redundant-churches-and-other-religious-buildings-act-1969/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1969/22",
  "legislation_title": "Redundant Churches and Other Religious Buildings Act 1969",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/redundant-churches-and-other-religious-buildings-act-1969",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to authorise the making of grants to the Redundant Churches Fund; to exclude section 40 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1968 in relation to the demolition, in certain cases, of redundant places of public worship; to provide for, and make provision in connection with, the transfer to the Minister of Housing and Local Government or the Secretary of State of certain such places; and to make other provision relating to the acquisition and maintenance by that Minister and the Secretary of State of redundant churches and other religious buildings.\n[16th May 1969]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "I",
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      "text": "Act wholly in force at Royal Assent."
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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."
}