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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-service-act-1953/section-12",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/37",
  "legislation_title": "Registration Service Act 1953",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-service-act-1953",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Provision of register boxes.",
  "text": "The Registrar General shall provide such number of strong fire-resisting boxes as may be required to hold the registers kept by each registrar of births and deaths and registrar of marriages.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2025/18",
      "affecting_title": "Data (Use and Access) Act 2025"
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:16:38.785066+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."
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