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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1991/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/11",
  "legislation_title": "Representation of the People Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1991",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make provision with respect to charges for returning officers’ services rendered, and expenses incurred, for or in connection with a parliamentary election.\n[9th May 1991]\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": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (prosp.) by 2000 c. 41, ss. 158(2), 163(2), Sch. 22 (with s. 156(6))"
    }
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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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