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  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/35",
  "legislation_title": "Security Service Act 1996",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to give the Security Service the function of acting in support of the prevention and detection of serious crime, and for connected purposes.\n[18th July 1996]\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:—",
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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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