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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/36-37/88",
  "legislation_title": "Slave Trade Act 1873",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/slave-trade-act-1873",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act for consolidating with Amendments the Acts for carrying into effect Treaties for the more effectual Suppression of the Slave Trade, and for other purposes connected with the Slave Trade.\n[5th August 1873]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act extended (E.W.) by Criminal Justice Act 1925 (c. 86), s. 11(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1893 (c. 54)"
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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