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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-and-rail-traffic-act-1933/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/23-24/53",
  "legislation_title": "Road and Rail Traffic Act 1933",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-and-rail-traffic-act-1933",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make provision for regulating the carriage of goods on roads by motor vehicles and for controlling the use of vehicles on certain roads; to amend certain provisions of the Road Traffic Act 1930; to amend the law relating to railways and to make provision for constituting a council to advise on questions in connection with the means of, and facilities for, transport; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.\n[17th November 1933]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act not in force at Royal Assent by s. 49(2) (now repealed)"
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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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