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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telegraph-act-1868/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telegraph-act-1868/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/31-32/110",
  "legislation_title": "Telegraph Act 1868",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telegraph-act-1868",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to enable Her Majesty’s Postmaster General to acquire, work, and maintain Electric Telegraphs.\n[31st July 1868]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Whole Act, except ss. 1 and 20 repealed by Telecommunications Act 1984 (c. 12, SIF 96), s. 109, Sch. 7 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act extended by Telegraph Act 1870 (c. 88), s. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1893 (c. 54)"
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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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