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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universities-of-oxford-and-cambridge-act-1923/schedule/paragraph-47",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/13-14/33",
  "legislation_title": "Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Act 1923",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universities-of-oxford-and-cambridge-act-1923",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/47",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Reference to Committee.",
  "text": "It shall be lawful for His Majesty in Council to refer any statute petitioned against under this Act to the Universities Committee.\nThe petitioners shall be entitled to be heard by themselves or counsel in support of their petition.\nIt shall be lawful for His Majesty in Council to make from time to time, rules of procedure and practice for regulating proceedings on such petitions.\nThe costs of all parties of and incident to such proceedings shall be in the discretion of the Universities Committee; and the orders of the Committee respecting costs shall be enforceable as if they were orders of a Division of the High Court of Justice.",
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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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