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  "legislation": "ukpga/1977/41",
  "legislation_title": "Water Charges Equalisation Act 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-charges-equalisation-act-1977",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to provide for the payment of equalisation levies and payments by and to statutory water undertakers in England and Wales and for purposes connected therewith.\n[29th July 1977]\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:—",
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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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