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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-amendment-act-1976/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-amendment-act-1976/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1976/82",
  "legislation_title": "Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-amendment-act-1976",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend the law relating to rape.\n[22nd November 1976]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act modified by S.I. 1987/299, reg. 8Act amended (E.W.N.I) (1.9.2001) by 2001 c. 17, s. 57(2) (with ss. 56, 63(2), 78); S.I. 2001/2161, art. 2 (subject to art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "As regards the extent of this Act see s. 7(6)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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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."
}