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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/48-49/34",
  "legislation_title": "Water Rate Definition Act 1885",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-rate-definition-act-1885",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to declare and explain the sixty–eighth section of the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847.\n[31st July 1885]\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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  "status": null,
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      "text": "Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1898 (c.22)"
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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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