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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/street-offences-act-1959/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/street-offences-act-1959/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/7-8/57",
  "legislation_title": "Street Offences Act 1959",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/street-offences-act-1959",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make, as respects England and Wales, further provision against loitering or soliciting in public places for the purpose of prostitution, and for the punishment of those guilty of certain offences in connection with refreshment houses and those who live on the earnings of or control prostitutes.\n[16th July 1959]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/7-8/57/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:11:47.824244+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}