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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1993/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/29",
  "legislation_title": "Representation of the People Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1993",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to secure that members of the regular army who, except for the purposes of training, are required to serve only in Northern Ireland are not regarded as members of the forces for the purposes of the Representation of the People Act 1983.\n[20th July 1993]\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",
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      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act: power to amend conferred (1.1.2007) by Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22), ss. 72, 77; S.I. 2006/3412, art. 3, Sch. 1 para. 10 (subject to art. 6 and with transitional provisions in Sch. 2)"
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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."
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