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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-act-1993/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/30",
  "legislation_title": "Sexual Offences Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-act-1993",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to abolish the presumption of criminal law that a boy under the age of fourteen is incapable of sexual intercourse.\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",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at 20.9.1993 see s. 2(2)"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/30/introduction",
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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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