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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/territorial-sea-act-1987/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/territorial-sea-act-1987/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1987/49",
  "legislation_title": "Territorial Sea Act 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/territorial-sea-act-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to provide for the extent of the territorial sea adjacent to the British Islands.\n[15th May 1987]\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": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act extended (with modifications) (31.3.1997) by S.I. 1997/278, art. 2, SchAct extended (with modifications) (12.2.2002 with effect in accordance with art. 1 with art. 1 of S.I. 2002/250) by S.I. 1997/278, art. 2, Sch. para. 2(b), para. (ii) of proviso (as amended by S.I. 2002/250, art. 2(a))Act extended (with modifications) (12.2.2002 with effect in accordance with art. 1 of S.I. 2002/250) by S.I. 1997/278 (as amended by S.I. 2002/250, art. 2(b)Act extended (with modifications) (12.2.2002 with effect in accordance with art. 1 of S.I. 2002/250) by S.I. 1997/278 (as amended by S.I. 2002/250, art. 2(c))"
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act extended (Guernsey) (with modifications) (23.7.2019) by The Territorial Sea Act 1987 (Guernsey) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/1108), art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act not in force at Royal Assent see s. 4(2); Act wholly in force at 01. 10. 1987."
    }
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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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